On 09/19/2016 05:38 PM, David Sterba wrote:

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:

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[...] A lot of stuff that may seem obvious to us after years of 
working with BTRFS isn't going to be to a newcomer, and it's a lot more 
likely that some random person will get things write if we have a good, 
central BCP document than if it stays as scattered tribal knowledge.

The IRC tribe answers the same newcomer questions over and over, which
is fine for the interaction itself, but if all that also ended up in
wiki we'd have perfect documentation years ago.

Yes, it's not the first time I'm thinking "wow, this #btrfs irc log I
have here is a goldmine of very useful information". Transforming it
into concise usable text on a wiki is a lot of work, but there's
certainly a "turnover" point that can be reached quite fast (I guess).

OTOH, the same happens on the mailing list, where I also see lots of
similar things answered over and over again, and a lot of treasures
being buried and forgotten.

Also the current status
of features and bugs is kept in the IRC-hive-mind yet it still needs
some other way to actually make it appear on wiki. Edit with courage!

Oh, right there at the end, I expected: Join #btrfs on freenode IRC! :-D

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Hans van Kranenburg