Re: Yocto usability questions

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 11/18/2011 10:02 AM, Ourada, Paul wrote:
> Jack said:
>> From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Jack Mitchell
>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:40 AM
>> To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto usability questions
>>
>> On 17/11/2011 21:38, Chris Tapp wrote: 
>> On 16 Nov 2011, at 22:07, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: 
>>
>>
>> Mark & everyone else listening: 
>>
>>
>> It is very frustrating when you come to an issue that isn't documented, however I have found the IRC an invaluable >resource as well as this mailing list. If documentation was to become more extensive I feel the categories should be >defined further and split into more documents.
> 
> I would just add that for some corporate/enterprise customers (such as myself), while IRC is great, it isn't as great an option because corporate IS locks down IRC protocols. To use IRC, I would have to do so from a non-work computer and likely outside of normal work hours, of which I already put in way more than my wife would prefer. :)

If I had a nickel for the .com guys ssh'ing into their home computers
(many times on non-standard ports) to run irc to get their work done,
I'd be retired :)

Philip

> 
> I really like Jack's list, though. I would like to pile on (again :)) that documentation, examples and explanation of terms are very important.
> 
> Paul
> 
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