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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] About user support and the mailing list
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:25:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015102505.29039661@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob6rpqsv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>

Dear Peter Korsgaard,

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:59:12 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  Thomas> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>  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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-12 10:15 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package: fix 'local' site method for host packages Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-14 19:59 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-15  8:25   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-10-15 13:04     ` [Buildroot] About user support and the mailing list Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-15 13:16       ` Jeremy Rosen
2013-10-15 14:30         ` Ryan Barnett
2013-10-15 16:07           ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-15 19:44             ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-10-16 21:56               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-10-16 16:00       ` Thomas Petazzoni

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