From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:25:05 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] About user support and the mailing list In-Reply-To: <87ob6rpqsv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1381572908-22696-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87ob6rpqsv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20131015102505.29039661@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Peter Korsgaard, On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:59:12 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > Thomas> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni > Thomas> Reported-by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19311747/buildroot-cant-use-local-site-method-for-custom-host-packages > > Heh, odd place to report such issues. Committed, thanks. Yes and no. Our mailing list is now having a *huge* traffic, mainly developer-oriented (patches and related discussions). For the user just starting up with Buildroot, not very familiar of open-source communities, not feeling necessarily at ease with subscribing to a 50-100 e-mails/day mailing list, searching other forms of support seems natural to me. Maybe it's a sign that we should have a more "user-oriented" support channel. A dedicated mailing list? An publicized usage of Stack Overflow or some other similar stuff? Not sure exactly about this, but might be worth a chat at the next Buildroot meeting, I believe. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com