Scott, I get a similar feel recently. Recently the developer input seems to have disappeared.
Others rarely to contribute (though you are a notable exception), and I have frequently hesitated to ask questions based on prior vitriolic responses, or after getting no response at all. ASSP is a *wonderful* tool and the developers deserve more praise than we could ever heap on them, but I fear it's dying on the vine, and that would be a real shame. For now, I intend to ask my questions and report my bugs in the Forums to see where that gets me. -----Original Message----- Thank you! I do not get it, it is as if every aspect of ASSP outside the actual dev mailing list and of course the great software it is, is a little bit of a pain. The users mailing list is very low traffic, I try to lend a hand there when I can. I just found out the other day, the forums are apparently the preferred place to go. I resisted the forums in the past, but I tried to use them again. I see a very familiar phpBB set of forums, and see no "register" link, which was just strange. On a lark, I click "login" and I am greeted with an http auth box. So now, I have to know to go to sf.net and get an account there? I did so, used a login name I wanted to change, to find out I can not. Then I find out, you can not, in any way, delete a sf.net account. So I login, change my email address to mailinator and abandon that account. Curious, what happened to my old data that was in the old forums, who ended up with that data? It is in phpBB, but wrapped up in http auth, which is so incredibly confusing to the end user. I emailed a listed admin a few months back, when the whole wiki and forums disappeared, offering to simply host them at my colo. Nothing. So I put the offer out again, happy to install phpBB, import the old data, and give a user a normal, not bound to sf.net joining experience. I will publicly state now, if at any time, any admin wants the data, they can have it. I will publicly offer to maintain the forums, manage spam, and actually reply to emails and support issues that go with managing a forum. Heck, I will even buy a domain and register it in the name of ASSP so it is less confusing to end users. If I see an http auth box, I assume, this is a admin only, invite only forum. I bet most others assume that as well. How many take the time to post here and find out? At the very least, delegate the current forums to someone who will maintain them, create a sub forum called "Trouble accessing the forum", and explain it in there. Not idea, but better. Thanks for listening. On Jun 3, 2009, at 2:59 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: > Niiice, > > So in essence, all the people on this list who need info to make > ASSP work properly are basically, more or less, kicked out > automatically, > since whatever we post, there is not one person authoritative to > answer. > I mean someone from the people who actually do active developing on > ASSP. > > Hmmmm ! Interesting. > > Any ideas here Fritz ? (Dare I ask) ? > > Because if you people don't want us using ASSP, just let us know. > I've done it before (abandoning an open-source product that I use > _FOR PRODUCTION_ networks _NOT_ playing around) and I am going to do > it again. Whenever is needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
