From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LV5wG-0007W6-Rz for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:14:49 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LV5vz-0000Bv-Rp for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:31 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:31 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:14:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <69E6C70090A0A14498CC98FAE5E06B6E3CF632@hiob.intern.dresearch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090131 Shredder/3.0b2pre In-Reply-To: <69E6C70090A0A14498CC98FAE5E06B6E3CF632@hiob.intern.dresearch.de> Sender: news Subject: Re: Please use the wiki X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05-02-09 09:07, Sledz, Steffen wrote: > As a developer working on OE just sometimes it is really hard to find information about all the big and little problems, hacks, tipps, and tricks. Often you have to dig through the archives of the mailing lists and frequently you overlook important things. This leads to problems by breaking unknown rules and much more mails asking the same questions again and again. > > With the wiki there is a much better place to pool all these informations. It is easy to write and update the pages, it is possible to discuss the items, there is a version history and a full text search, it is possible to use categories, and much more. > > It would be really helpful if all the important information from the mailing lists and other sources could find it's way (directly or with references) to the wiki. I miss pages describing major concepts (e.g. virtual and native packages), the branch policy (e.g. how's the the stable branch made?), pages to all the main distros, machines and major packages, an overview about all the tricky things usable in the recipes, best practises, and so on. > > So again my call (especially to the core team): Please share your knowledge in the wiki! Such information shouldn't be in the wiki, but in the manual: http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/log/&h=org.openembedded.documentation