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#148
Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
The developer is more concerned with making it work rather than posting a walkthrough for how to install it. The people who are likely testing it are more concerned with reporting bugs, issues then writing a walkthrough for it. Which takes time (and people aren't being paid to be here).

So for anyone else who wants to learn how to use it their options are to read up on the posts, or to wait till someone has time to post a guide. But given how small the community was, most people have been in the developer, or testing role.

Given all the new people here that want to see things change I see it as a perfect opportunity for them to read through the posts and learn and then create a walkthrough for everyone else. It's a perfect opportunity since Maemo 5 and the n900 is relatively fresh (less to read right now). Especially those who actually have the device.

And like I pointed out before, there is a wiki so there has been attempts made to centralize the information. It's more an issue of time.
I didn't necessarily mean the developer to write it, just someone, anyone, myself included.

My point was there was not all the information that I needed on the thread (the easy debian one is very good, but doesn't cover everything).

So central document, which can be edited by anyone would be the way forward. Plus points = central document for update editing, exact location on the wiki with "How to" at the start (everyone knows where and what they are).

I tried to search when I first came on here to find out myself how to get open office on the N900 and when I typed into search this was like 20 down on the list: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition! Plus the fact that I had no clue what "easy debian" was, so why would I have gone on it to read it?

Only after I posted did someone tell me that I was looking for that, so central document with easy naming convention would be big plus to newbies.

I think what people missed was the fact that I would be happy to write ALL of them (lots of free time - I work offshore ) but I just wanted somewhere to put them! LOL I wanted a bit of a tech guide from the dev then expand that and make it easy for the general user. I know its a bit more work for them, but they can do a really bare bones doc which gives the rest of us mid-level users enough to go on to expand. And then everyone can point questions at us or search the expanded doc, taking the load actual away from the dev. Btw it wasn't just a walkthrough I wanted it was a knowledge page for all user levels.

Hope that makes sense....
 

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