Comments on: Expectations Of Services Provided For Free

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:01:07 +0000

RE: Arch Linux packages.

For every one person who complains there are probably 10 people who appreciate what the devs and TUs do who remain silent. As a lurker on the Arch mailing lists I see how much work goes into keeping the packages up to date especially the big ones like readline and libjpeg. Thanks.

By: Archlinux – libjpeg error | О Линуксе и не только

Archlinux – libjpeg error | О Линуксе и не только — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:55 +0000

[...] Что теперь имеем? В браузере (Mozilla Firefox) не отображаются JPEG-изображения. На ветке форума, кстати, уже закрытой, ничего не прояснилось. Точнее, прояснилось, да еще как. Никто не писал багрепортов, потому и перенесли из [testing] в [extra]. Чтож теперь делать, пересобирать все остальное? Кстати, один из разработчиков Archlinux-a, если не ошибаюсь, написал весьма эмоциональный пост – Ожидания от бесплатных вещей. [...]

By: Philip Stark

Philip Stark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:53:52 +0000

This makes me immensely satisfied.
good for you
that’s the way to go

cheers
Phil

By: Dan McGee

Dan McGee — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:52:08 +0000

Good post. Although I’m not into anime, the rest of the post resonates well with what I’ve seen out there. The Arch users, although still not up there with some other distros, have become a lot less willing to fix/experiement/patch things. When I first started it was definitely a “do it yourself” distro, and some -Syu upgrades would give you headaches. We have the whole [core] signoff procedure now, which has greatly reduced the pain of system upgrades, and yet we still have users that will never be satisified.

Sending their emails straight to the trash seems pretty reasonable to me.

By: André

André — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:03:30 +0000

Nicely done Allan. Ignoring is the key.

In my view, the open source system tells me one thing. “I shall not complain, because if I really need something I can do it by my self” and probably give it back to the community.

Establishing a connection, also, with anime series, I have to say I miss a lot the good humour of the dattebayo fansubs team (which abandoned my favorite anime show) when dealing with angry people who want their free episode right now and in a record breaking quality.

I just can’t stand this kind of demand in the free and open sourced community…

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:31:45 +0000

You probably don’t want to watch that particular anime (DB Kai) unless, like me, you feel nostalgia towards it…

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:44:32 +0000

On another level, i was dissapointed when you updated the toolchain to use GCC-4.4 far too soon IMO.
Arch is the only distribution using it, besides the insanely bleedin edge recently released Fedora.
I dont know the reason you did that. AFAICT there was no reason to hurry. We would still be OK with GCC-4.3.3.
The impact of your decision is already obvious with libsqlclients on the readline rebuild.
That decision mostly impacts you, the people building many packages, and i want to wish you luck with the libjpeg rebuilds.

By: Aaron Griffin

Aaron Griffin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Hear hear!

What’s the anime series? I wanna watch! I wanna watch!

Why are you so slow at posting on your blog? Don’t you care about your readership!?

By: Xentac

Xentac — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:35:16 +0000

You ignore users?!? How could you? You’re taking away their Internet given right to unreasonably request anything and everything! How dare you be so insensitive!