From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDNQL-000568-U6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:58:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDNQC-0004zN-EV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:58:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDNQC-0004yW-1m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:58:20 -0500 Received: from [193.96.240.2] (helo=br2uxs04.hb.orthogon.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDN9z-0003QX-1l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:41:35 -0500 Received: from br2uxs03.hb.orthogon.com (br2uxs03.hb.orthogon.com [150.158.146.28]) by br2uxs04.hb.orthogon.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.8.8/Ortho-4.10) with ESMTP id j2LDfXA17549 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:41:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from [150.158.146.126] (br2wsl15.hb.orthogon.com [150.158.146.126]) by br2uxs03.hb.orthogon.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8/Ortho-4.10) with ESMTP id OAA19903 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:41:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <423ECF0C.6080603@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:41:32 +0100 From: Oliver Gerlich MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Developer-to-user communication Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, as Qemu gets more widespread (ok, less narrowspread :) there should be better communication between developers and end users. Qemu is already usable, but the lack of support probably frightens off many potential users. I don't know how many developers also read the dad-answers.com forum but I think there are many help requests in the forum which are also interesting for developers. So, here are some ideas on how to improve this: -There should be a bigger FAQ which answers also questions from the forum; and it should also list the frequently mentioned known bugs. -Some kind of bug tracking site / bug list would also be useful so users can better see current development status. -A list of unofficial patches etc. would be nice. There are several sites with patches which solve some of the problems in the forum, but they are difficult to find, especially for simple users ;) -How about a Qemu Wiki? There is a qemu-related Wiki page at http://am.xs4all.nl/phpwiki/index.php/Qemu , but it's not in good shape and the whole Wiki is not really Qemu specific. A Wiki could help to offload some "public relations" work from the main developers. Some of these ideas are already realised in the mentioned Wiki, but that site is quite unknown. I think we should concentrate these things on the Qemu home page or a closely related site. Does anyone have web space, time etc. to realise these ideas? Opinions? Ideas? Improvements? Please tell me what you think about this! Oliver Gerlich