Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Request for Wiki update.

[HansFong]

Hi Marcus,

Okay, let's agree to disagree. I consider documentation an integral part of development, you clearly think it takes secondary place or it's maybe a task for the users, not the developers. That's okay, either way it will get done.

Daniel doesn't work that much on gr-satellites, as he admits himself. Like most developers he is interested in just that: developing. He doesn't really care if or how many people use his work, which seems very strange to me, but then again, I'm an end-user, not a geek. So yes, the community has to do it's part and thus we do.

Cheers,

Hans

BX2ABT

On 10/16/19 10:42 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote:

On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 21:02 +0800, HansFong wrote:

That was the advice I gave in my last mail: don't release until 
everything is ready, including the documentation. It will prevent a lot 
of confusion and reflector posts like this, hi hi.

So, no. That's a strong no. This is an free and open source project,
and while it ultimate serves the goal of being useful, that goal can
only be achieved if development doesn't stall.

GNU Radio 3.8 was in the making for six years, and we've been pushing
us very hard to make the release perfect – which it clearly isn't, but
at somepoint, the release had to be made.

So, sorry, that's not an option.

gr-satellites is the reason. The maintainer is working on version 2.0, 

I want to stay on top of that. gr-satellites also suffers from the same 

malady of lack of documentation.

Another clear No. It suffers from an awesome author that rather pushes
his software forward and simply needs an occasional minute in his day
to sleep.
Like every FOSS project, documentation is also a community effort.

 I already wrote on a good install guide 
for version 1.7 on GNUradio 3.7 for Kubuntu,
 but since 1.8 is the last 

old-style release I want to focus on 2.0. Luckily Daniel has opened a 
Wiki on the github repository of gr-satellites and after my initial 
install guide there are now others working on new guides for 
installation. After that I want to write some user guides for newbies of 
gr-satellites (like me) so that more people can decode telemetry with GR.

I'm happy that you can contribute to other people helping each other here!


Best regards,
Marcus

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