First small steps toward free GSM firmware

Nick openmoko-community at njw.me.uk
Sun Nov 10 18:27:45 CET 2013


Quoth Norayr Chilingarian:
> What I would write in wiki is step by step instructions how to build the
> firmware, free loader, and flash it.
> I don't think it can confuse someone in some way.
> 
> What about moderation, then, well, what you are saying is against
> collaborative work, like it is in Wikipedia.
> Everyone, by even not having Wikipedia account could go and write
> everything he wants. However, as we see, there are more sane people
> rather than idiots, and Wikipedia is mostly correct.

I think Joerg was worried about you writing a page saying "this 
firmware improves power consumption" before more testing and 
consulting with more knowledgeable people. I'm sure we all agree 
that a place to discuss ideas and possibilities (as wrong as they 
may turn out to be) is valuable, but Joerg has no doubt been around 
long enough to have to deal with the fallout of those discussions / 
conjectures being left in places where people take theories that had 
been disproved elsewhere as fact, and shared the disinformation 
wider. Which ultimately can give a bad impression to a project, as 
well as bad experience to others.

Which is a long way of saying: the mailing list is the best place 
for discussion, and the wiki should be reserved for things which we 
are more sure about. So instructions on building and loading the 
firmware would be fine for the wiki, but speculations about its 
power saving (or sms receiving) improvements are best for the 
mailing list. Which I know is what you suggested, but that wasn't 
clear initially.



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