[oi-dev] Thoughts on FOSDEM and the road ahead

[Bayard Bell]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Bayard Bell wrote:
> > My surmise is that we've got a lot of users who are--I don't want to say
> conservative but production-centric. We need to help them make the
> transition from being Sun customers to OI contributors.
>
> In my case, I'm coming from Linux (production) and staring wide-eyed at a
> new (to me) world with a bit of a learning curve to it. My biggest personal
> stumbling block to contributing more deeply is the state of the wiki right
> now. There is a little bit of doc here & there but it doesn't seem very
> thorough, linear, or well-maintained in its current state. Documentation is
> as important as code in some thriving communities, and I would suggest it's
> a value worth considering giving greater weight to here.
>

As I've been working a lot with userland recently, I tried to take a bunch
of my recurring questions and things that I keep having to pull out of
various Makefile includes and document them here:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/userland+Makefile+targets+and+variables

This is still a work in progress. I was also considered providing a few
example Makefiles and package manifests in the wiki as illustrations of how
to deal with particular problems (a few of the xemacs Makefiles could be
useful here, as would the latest version of git), some of which I touched
on in this doc.
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