[Buildroot] About user support and the mailing list
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 15 08:25:05 UTC 2013
Dear Peter Korsgaard,
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:59:12 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Thomas> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> Thomas> Reported-by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19311747/buildroot-cant-use-local-site-method-for-custom-host-packages
>
> Heh, odd place to report such issues. Committed, thanks.
Yes and no. Our mailing list is now having a *huge* traffic, mainly
developer-oriented (patches and related discussions). For the user just
starting up with Buildroot, not very familiar of open-source
communities, not feeling necessarily at ease with subscribing to a
50-100 e-mails/day mailing list, searching other forms of support seems
natural to me.
Maybe it's a sign that we should have a more "user-oriented" support
channel. A dedicated mailing list? An publicized usage of Stack
Overflow or some other similar stuff? Not sure exactly about this, but
might be worth a chat at the next Buildroot meeting, I believe.
Best regards,
Thomas
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