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<Profpatsch>
qyliss: As a casual lurker I liked the status report very much, especially the high level technical overview of what was done.
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<Profpatsch>
I can see a funder liking the format very much as well, because it’s a small time investment and gives a concise overview that is really quite impressive
<Profpatsch>
Small time investment for the (potential) funder, which is something worth optimizing for.
<Profpatsch>
Pretty certain a weekly status update would only be read by potential contributors, not investors.
<samueldr>
talking from my experience, weekly could be too short to have enough material to write about, but I personally think having a periodic scheduled post really helps
<samueldr>
because I know that, personally, without a schedule I just wait until "I have enough to write about" and end up with too much to write about and declare post backruptcy
<samueldr>
while if there is a scheduled periodicity, it also helps me see in restrospect what I did, and realize I didn't do "nothing" as sometimes it feels :)
<qyliss>
samueldr: the weekly one for last week was like 1800 words lol
<MichaelRaskin>
You seemed quite happy not having to compress it
<qyliss>
but I will try to keep collating them into higher level status updates occasionally
<qyliss>
yeah it was nice to be able to just write and send in a single pass
<qyliss>
But I'm also fine with weekly status updates where I say "I accomplished very little this week"
<qyliss>
(Which this week's might be, the way it's going...)
<Profpatsch>
Which is never true tho, is it
<MichaelRaskin>
«I accomplished very little this week.» — qyliss started. One thousand words and one thousand lines of corresponding crosvm diffs later…
<Profpatsch>
some people are modest like that
<samueldr>
I think it also helps and matters what the audience and tone here
<MichaelRaskin>
I guess the problem is when one needs to read a few thousands of other people's diffs and extract what the hell is going on — it is easy to underestimate the amount of achievement there
<qyliss>
Yeah, the audience for the weekly updates is rather different
<qyliss>
(Which is why I post them to the mailing list and not my blog)
<qyliss>
And that's true, MichaelRaskin. I have spent most of this week so far reading various kernel mailing list threads.
<Profpatsch>
that’s why LWN is so awesome
<qyliss>
Yeah LWN is great
<qyliss>
(When there's an appropriate article)
<qyliss>
I'm a very happy subscriber
<Profpatsch>
same
<qyliss>
My hit rate there with the stuff I'm currently looking at is fairly low, sadly
<qyliss>
Most recently I had to figure out how to use the udmabuf API (not the external module with the same name you'll find through a web search) largely by just reading the kernel tests
<qyliss>
There's a mailing list thread I eventually found with a tiny amount of documentation, but that patch was never applied for some reason.
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<MichaelRaskin>
The nice part of tests is that it is usually easier to check for bitrot than with other kinds of usage examples…