[maemo-developers] Documenting maemo pearls (was Re: N800 & Video playback)

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> If there's anything you want to know directly, just ask on the list.  I
> tend to deal with email when I'm not actively coding/building/etc, which
> is how I justify it.  A wiki would require me to sit down for a while
> and really think about stuff, and I don't really have huge blocks of
> time available to me.
> 
> But yeah, always happy to answer direct questions.

Disadvantage is that it becomes lost in the list archive. Even when you 
do search the archive it is hard to know proper keywords and it is very 
likely your brilliant answer will not be found. Many times I am 100% 
sure the answer is in the list since I remember someone answered it some 
time ago but even then it is hard or impossible to find.

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
>> Quim, while "formal" documents as those maemo.org provides are cool,
>> it consumes a lot of resources... doing simple but correct/consistent
>> wiki is good enough. Maybe we could setup a "techday" that we'd meet
>> on IRC and document some topics on Wiki. It would be great to get some
>> people with deep knowledge on hw issues, like Daniel, Siarhei and
>> Eero... I could help with writing and organization, as I never dig on
>> hw that much (but I'll need to do so really soon).
> 
> If you can manage the timezones, that would probably be okay.
> America/Europe is doable if you guys get up early, just as long as
> no-one from Asia-Pacific wants to join in ...
> 

This techday is good idea. Sadly it depends on people being available at 
that time and most probably most people providing interesting answers 
may be the most busy ones. I tend to avoid IRC because it is big waste 
of time. There are few gems too found in the archives (thanks Marius G. 
;-) but 98% is just babble and FAQs repeated again and again. However I 
would try to join such techday on IRC (not that I expect my presence to 
be useful to others). It would be nice to have such tech days regulary 
preferably with few topics set in advance. But still I don't know how 
real it is to achieve this and whether wiki or mailing list is not 
better suited for this after all.

Frantisek