From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix website Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:17:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn92vjc2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151230111841.GA12100@thebird.nl> <20151231174244.GA13890@jasmine> <87d1tll4aj.fsf@gnu.org> <20160101212330.GB11284@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFjT1-0007iW-O7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:17:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFjSy-0004Nw-IL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:17:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160101212330.GB11284@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:23:30 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Leo Famulari skribis: > Yes, I personally hate watching videos and listening to podcasts. I only > do it when there is no transcript and I am on a long bus or train ride > and can't concentrate on working. I personally found that video to be a > very good explanation of the problems addressed by Guix and the > solutions offered. As well as the newer video you mentioned. > > A transcript next to slides [0] can be read in less time than 45 > minutes. It can also be skimmed, searched, and anchor-linked. I agree. If someone volunteers to write transcripts of the available videos, we could put them online (but obviously that=E2=80=99s quite a bit = of work!). > A number of the ...unusual questions people have asked about Guix > demonstrate a near total lack of knowledge about the project's goals and > design. We need an overview like that provided by the videos. The manual > is more of a "how-to". The liberating, dependable, and hackable items on the front page link to overviews in the manual, notably the =E2=80=9CFeatures=E2=80=9D node. Mayb= e a good start would be to improve them? > I also liked some blog posts by Andy Wingo and Christopher Allan Webber, > although those posts don't explain "the whole picture". Agreed, blog posts like these and those of David and Ricardo are very nice, because they show concrete use cases. They=E2=80=99re also useful for someone knowledgeable about the project bec= ause they clearly show parts that are confused, badly documented, or that somehow fail to address the problems people are having. I would invite the bloggers among us to do more of these. :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.