On 6/1/25 23:53, Cody Holliday wrote:
> Hey Jacob,
> 
> That is all really interesting! You have put a ton of work into 
> improving things.
> I myself have been thankful for the qemu builds so I can skip all the 
> rigamarole.
> 
> I think to Ron's point: why is this not clear and easy to find on the 
> 9front site?

The qemu images are listed along with all the other release images, so
I feel that's pretty out in the open. The nightly site is listed in the
FQA as well. However I would still suggest that most users at least
start with a release iso. We do a lot more testing leading up to a release
then we have automated for the nightly releases.

Most of these other things, the github mirrors and drawterm CI, are more
of a developer convenience then anything else. To me it doesn't make much
sense to advertise them as much. I shopped this stuff around local 9front
watering holes at the time. The contributions and technical discussion
happening about developing 9front code has not historically happened much
on 9fans, don't get me wrong I am very pleased that it is, however it is
not surprising that some newer changes take a bit of time to get around.

> 
> Clearly if people are having the troubles in Ron's email, then this 
> information is
> not as available or obvious as it should be.
> 
> Not denigrating your message, just pointing out a usability problem.

I have not seen the bug reports, so it is hard for me to say.
When someone had issues were they directed to finding resources in the
9front FQA? Were they directed to reporting drawterm build bugs to us?

Are there specific changes you would make to the FQA that would better
communicate this information?

> 
> I'll use your resources in the future :)
> 

Please do. :)


Thanks,
Jacob

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