From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from syrinx.knorrie.org ([82.94.188.77]:58815 "EHLO syrinx.knorrie.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932650AbcISVZ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:25:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Is stability a joke? To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" , dsterba@suse.cz, Waxhead , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org References: <57D51BF9.2010907@online.no> <20160912142714.GE16983@twin.jikos.cz> <52304724-5bca-a1e6-527f-040085c7ab19@gmail.com> <20160912165107.GG16983@twin.jikos.cz> <58a954fc-bbd5-3fb5-9f23-008ed7f7121d@gmail.com> <20160919153815.GH933@twin.jikos.cz> From: Hans van Kranenburg Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:25:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160919153815.GH933@twin.jikos.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/19/2016 05:38 PM, David Sterba wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >> [...] A lot of stuff that may seem obvious to us after years of >> working with BTRFS isn't going to be to a newcomer, and it's a lot more >> likely that some random person will get things write if we have a good, >> central BCP document than if it stays as scattered tribal knowledge. > > The IRC tribe answers the same newcomer questions over and over, which > is fine for the interaction itself, but if all that also ended up in > wiki we'd have perfect documentation years ago. Yes, it's not the first time I'm thinking "wow, this #btrfs irc log I have here is a goldmine of very useful information". Transforming it into concise usable text on a wiki is a lot of work, but there's certainly a "turnover" point that can be reached quite fast (I guess). OTOH, the same happens on the mailing list, where I also see lots of similar things answered over and over again, and a lot of treasures being buried and forgotten. > Also the current status > of features and bugs is kept in the IRC-hive-mind yet it still needs > some other way to actually make it appear on wiki. Edit with courage! Oh, right there at the end, I expected: Join #btrfs on freenode IRC! :-D -- Hans van Kranenburg