09-15-2016, 12:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2016, 01:19 AM by MarkHaysHarris777.
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I wouldn't have put it quite so bluntly as tkasier did, but I do agree that things have stagnated on the pine64.pro front... and I haven't seen Lenny around on the forums of late, so I suspect it is suffering very much from 'one man band' limitations and unfortunate things like life getting in the way as it does.
I do agree that a scripted automation system like armbian is needed, as it removes the need to remember if you configured this or configured that, and did you change this... it will always come out the same every time. And we all know that documentation has not been a strong point of this project.
So, instead of going around and around in a vicious cycle of lack of documentation, and poorly developed stuff, why don't we use already existing tools instead of re-inventing stuff. Bug trackers already exist online, and are even free... so why make a new one... sure, it's fun to make and say we've done it... but I'm sure we can put our time to better use. So, can we do something with github? Maybe by opening a new repo so we can pull together scripts to do things on the pine64 and also maybe make use of the wiki & github.io hosting there... Then we can track issues in a standardised manner, allow editing to resources, and perhaps even use the github.io to compile release documentation and known issues.
I do agree that a scripted automation system like armbian is needed, as it removes the need to remember if you configured this or configured that, and did you change this... it will always come out the same every time. And we all know that documentation has not been a strong point of this project.
So, instead of going around and around in a vicious cycle of lack of documentation, and poorly developed stuff, why don't we use already existing tools instead of re-inventing stuff. Bug trackers already exist online, and are even free... so why make a new one... sure, it's fun to make and say we've done it... but I'm sure we can put our time to better use. So, can we do something with github? Maybe by opening a new repo so we can pull together scripts to do things on the pine64 and also maybe make use of the wiki & github.io hosting there... Then we can track issues in a standardised manner, allow editing to resources, and perhaps even use the github.io to compile release documentation and known issues.