[coreboot] Thoughts for call for help in Ubuntu forum

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 02.11.2008 23:25, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
>   
>> lately some message came to the list in reaction to the post "You can
>> help out Coreboot!" in the Ubuntu forums
>>     
>
> Is that kind of flood really useful ?
>   

It is well-meant, but I actually doubt the usefulness right now. For
one, we don't know for which hardware that stuff is generated. It may be
good to keep the stuff around for later reference, but I don't know
anybody who would have time to analyze these dumps in the next 3 months.

> Is someone using it to enhance coreboot ?
>
> Those are genuinely naive questions, nothing harsh intended,
> because I can't remember seeing a reaction to those posts.
>   

We should have a page called "Want to help?" in the wiki and post easy
instructions there. Installing subversion is not what I consider to be
easy. And we need to explain what our tools do so people can decide on
their own whether they want to run the tools.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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