[syslinux] Task wishlist (was Re: SYSLINUX 3.70-pre1: development release)

[Murali (முரளி கணபதி)]

The other advantage of helping out with documentation (at least for
me), is that it can be done in say 20 chunks of 10 minutes each, while
coding requires 2 chunks of 100 minutes, and getting one chunk of 100
minutes can be difficult.

- Murali

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Murali (முரளி கணபதி) <murali at google.com> wrote:
> I think, we should all pitch in with the documentation, and get most
>  things documented. Even if it is not perfect, have some documentation.
>  Then people will start reading the documentation, fix it / complain.
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>  I will volunteer for the config file and menu systems documentation.
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>  - Murali
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>  On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>  > Murali (முரளி கணபதி) wrote:
>  >
>  > > How about getting a GSoC'er to implement some feature requests, and
>  >  > that will give others more time to work on the documentation. I can
>  >  > add a section for the config file format and the menu systems in the
>  >  > wiki. As a first pass, copy paste the README files and format them
>  >  > appropriately.
>  >  >
>  >  > Regarding the quality, we could be very selective, and select somebody
>  >  > only if we think they can help. Otherwise, it would be a waste of our
>  >  > time and will not give the student a good experience as well.
>  >
>  >  For "others" you mean me?  At the moment there isn't really a whole lot
>  >  of other people contributing; for 3.36 to 3.62-pre16 there are 12
>  >  commits by other people and 389 commits from me (although I think there
>  >  is a handful which are miscredited.)
>  >
>  >  Now, that obviously doesn't include any help people have given with the
>  >  Wiki.
>  >
>  >  Part of the problem is that I really don't like writing documentation,
>  >  and since I'm chronically overcommitted (and chronically spend too much
>  >  time working on syslinux as it is) it's what gets put off.
>  >
>  >         -hpa
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> --
>  Murali
>
>  கற்றது கை மண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு
>  (What we know is only a handful, what we dont is the rest of the world)
>



-- 
Murali

கற்றது கை மண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு
(What we know is only a handful, what we dont is the rest of the world)