[wpkg-users] Thanks for everything - WPKG is nice but it still needs improvement

[Rainer Meier]

Dear Steve,

Steve Handy wrote:
> You know Rainer this conversation between you and I is starting to get a little out of hand and scope if you want to be honest. I came to you for help and yet I am getting reprimands and a lot offensive comments. If you are not going to communicate in a professional manner, then please don't communicate with me at all. I can certainly find help via different channels.

OK, I think in every single post I did here I tried to solve your 
problem. From your side I just miss the information I and others have 
asked for several times. This is very very frustrating and leads to some 
wild guesses. This just wastes our time.

It was not my intention to offend you. Probably everybody here agrees to 
you that I offend you and I am not able to communicate in a 
"professional" way. In this case you're right, I should stop reading the 
mailing lists here and let you get some help from somebody else.

 From my perspective you're already offending people by the arrogant way 
of top-posting here and expecting people to solve your problem without 
delivering appropriate information.

So I will stop to communicate to you now, leaving you alone. Hopefully 
somebody else is willing to waste his time trying to solve your problems.


> Your documentation on wpkg.org needs to be specific. When visitors first arrive they aren't going to looking for the wpkg.org /help. They are going to be looking at the wiki which is posted. If it was clearly stated which are flags, which are commands, then no confusion would have existed on my part.

Yes, the documentation is an issue we should address. I already 
mentioned this several times. Unfortunately nobody is volunteering to do 
massive updates on the wiki and writing documents.

I did already lots of updates to the documentation of wpkg.js, mainly 
directly within the script. There are now even more Javadoc and other 
comments than code. The /help page has been re-structured and grouped 
which already explains quite a lot to new users.

What about you? Probably you can provide some enhancements instead of 
just complaining about the weaknesses. WPKG is an open project. Feel 
free to write a beginners guide summarizing all your problems and how 
you managed to get around them.
Most of the people here work with WPKG since quite a long time. For us 
it is not that obvious what the problems of beginners are. So in this 
case thanks for your input, I will refer to the "commands" as 
"operations" in the future for consistency reason.


In any case documentation can never answer all the questions. Especially 
if users do not read it.

By the way - I am not sure if you read my complete reply to your message 
or if you just stopped on top since you felt offended. However I tried 
to solve your problem once again. So you might try my suggested fix as 
outlined. If you don't because you are pissed off now... your decision.

Rainer