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

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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