[Qemu-devel] Re: documentation

[G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

On May 11, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, G 3 wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to compile Qemu on MinGW but I keep running into
>> problems. The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation. Who is
>> in charge of Qemu's documentation? In the section about compiling 
>> under
>> Windows there is mention of a file called i386-mingw32msvb.tar.gz. 
>> This
>> file doesn't exist any more in SDL 1.2.13.
>
> Well, nobody is in charge.  This is an Open Source project, so people 
> do
> what they like, and apparently nobody liked taking care of the
> documentation.
>
>> It would really help the Qemu community if they tried to update their
>> documentation.
>
> I fail to see how.  The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing
> without the outdated documentation...
>
> Oh, and if you wanted to suggest that better documentation could give 
> QEmu
> a bigger user community: as far as I can tell, nobody working on QEmu
> would have any benefit from a larger user base.

Better documentation would make it easier for users to actually make 
Qemu. I know all you Qemu experts know how to compile the program, but 
remember there are still people out there that don't know as much as 
you do. It is only logical that up to date documentation be provided so 
others may enjoy this program as well.