Community support - where do want to be in a year?

krtaylor kurt.r.taylor at gmail.com
Sat Feb 8 04:58:16 AEDT 2020


On 2/7/20 10:30 AM, Patrick Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 06:02:01PM -0600, Kurt Taylor wrote:
> 
> One interesting thing the #yocto channel has on IRC is a bot that
> posts links whenever someone opens a Stack Overflow with a 'yocto'
> tag.  I think we need a better mechanism to help with "drive by"
> questions.

Yes! maybe a variant of the meetbot functionality to monitor SO - may 
require channel logging, we'd need everyone to be comfortable with that.

Thanks, I'll add that to the list...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QCFRGCRofcR3K8clSLtJHw10-Cu9zkp0dvwXPWzQSCc/edit?usp=sharing

Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)


> This was pointedly said in the IRC and I certainly agree with it:
> 
>      ------: I realize ------ is asking a lot of basic questions that most
>      of us would normally answer by reading the code and experimenting.
>      They are highlighting major gaps in documentation though
> 
> We often have introductory questions on IRC and mailing list that go
> unanswered.  So, having a Stack Override bot wouldn't do anything if
> people don't take turns answering.
> 



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