Return-Path: From: Brian Sammon To: BlueZ users , Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Missing: big picture In-reply-to: <77B155F2-6129-4953-932A-E3B62C7AA17B@holtmann.org> References: <47B5B3FA.1050107@wurmsdobler.org> <1203101519.7664.552.camel@violet> <77B155F2-6129-4953-932A-E3B62C7AA17B@holtmann.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:13:24 -0500 Message-Id: List-ID: > > Please, encourage the developers to read and respond to this list-- > > or should the users be posting these kinds of questions on bluez- > > devel? > > this works very well and a lot of people spent a lot of time to answer I'm a little unclear what you're saying here. Are you saying that, yes, it is better to ask these questions on the developer's mailing list? > questions on the mailing list and track down problems. However you > should read this first: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I'm quite familiar with this page. Is there one of my previous questions that you thought was not "smart", or is this just general advice? > My advise would be to start some documentation inside the wiki and Actually, I think that the last thing the wiki needs is more "started" documentation. My plan would be to fix (or "finish") some of the documentation that has already been started. > then ask questions. Asking them up-front without showing that you will > contribute to the project doesn't go good with any developers of any I have contributed. If you look through the archives of this list, you'll see that I've attempted to provide assistance to other users on a few occasions, as well as I could with my limited knowledge. In any case, when I find some time in the next few days I'll repost my unanswered questions from a few months ago, and if I get an answer, I'll try to integrate it into the wiki.