Re: [E-devel] Offering my help...

[<wi...@ho...>]

hi,

you can start by trying not to duplicate efforts ;-)

there's a good link on building and initial setup of E17 at 

http://www.hiddenrock.com/~tam/e17/compile.html

take care,

wim

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 01:03, Tim Fabiniak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sort of new to the list, but I would like to help out with e17
> development.  The basic problem is that I have only minimal C skills
> (enough to understand code, but not write much of my own).  I have
> noticed a great need for documentation help, though, and I can do that. 
> I don't have much time, but with the time I can spare, I'd like to keep
> an FAQ for e17 users.  I think this will help in a few ways:
> 
> 1) The developers will have time to code
> 2) The users will be more likely to get things up and running
> 3) More users will see how cool things are, and want to help (like
> myself), therefore advancing the project as a whole
> 
> I haven't exactly figured out a great way of answering questions yet,
> but I have a few ideas.  The method I think will work best is pretty
> simple... Questions will be sent to me, and I'll answer new questions on
> the FAQ as soon as I can, if I can.  The questions I cannot answer will
> be put on the FAQ anyway with a note that I don't yet have an answer.  I
> can then either 1) send a weekly (or so) digest of unanswered questions
> to the list, cutting down all of the support requests to a single
> message or 2) leave the questions sitting on the list until somebody
> browses by with the answer.  I feel the first would be more conductive
> to advancement in the project, but would require a weekly (or so)
> message full of questions to read or delete.
> 
> Hope I can be of some help to you guys, I really love the stuff you're
> working on.
> 
> [BTW - my current take on the enlightenment is dead thread:
> There is a reason that most large projects have release managers. 
> Releasing a chunk of code is not an easy thing to do, and it is surely
> not something most developers care to waste time on.  Every hour spent
> making a release (or answering stupid questions, as I propose to do) is
> another hour away from coding, designing widgets, testing, or sleeping. 
> I do agree with the benefits of releasing code while still in
> development, but there needs to be somebody else to do it.]
> 
> Tim Fabiniak
> tr...@ga...
> 
> 
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