What can us mere mortals do to help?

[Dirk Hohndel]

Chris Lewis <chrislewis915 at gmail.com> writes:
> I have access to a win7 laptop and a couple of Linux machines. They both
> run the mythbuntu distribution as they are my HTPCs.  I have struggled
> building stuff occasionally as I think they are pretty stripped down from a
> normal Ubuntu distro but I always seems to figure it out eventually.  Just
> a case of installing a package or two.  I don't bother the list if I can
> help it as I'm aware my case is probably fairly uncommon.

So what? If there are changes we can make to the documentation or to the
software itself that make things easier for people like you, that's a
good thing!

> I can't download my DC on the laptop either as it has no serial port
> (suunto vyper RS232 lead) and the USB cable I had got lost when I moved
> house last.  Maybe I should buy another or a USB serial converter thing.

:-)

> At the moment I tend to run subsurface using x forwarding over SSH  on my
> windows laptop from one of the Linux boxes. Probably another unusual case.
> I will try the windows installer when I get a chance.

Yes, it's an unusual case - but I'd love to find out if there are
specific issues. And I wonder if there are some aspect of this that you
have figured out that we should document.

> I will also try to have a proper read of the docs as I tend to just click
> away at stuff until I figure it out normally. If I can improve it at all i
> will be back for some advice on how to make patches etc!

Reading the docs and commenting on them would be awesome.

The making patches part is really easy - I mentioned it here on the list
a couple of times in the last day or two. Once you are ready ask again
if what was posted here wasn't detailed enough...

/D