I usually just delete these kind of posts without reading them, but I recognized the name as someone whose posted recently so I did not delete it, but no way I was going to try and read that wall of text. especially when I'm writing software . . .
Do us a favor in the future Joseph. dontwirteyourtextinonebighugemonolithicparagrapshwhichmakespeoplenotwanttoreadwhatyouresaying. Point made ? On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Joseph Heller > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just stumbled upon an issue I had encountered a year ago as well, and > > would like to share some thoughts on this here. All help appreciated, > don't > > get me wrong, and I'm sure it will be resolved but I recalled some things > > missing the first time when I had the issue, which still seem to be > missing > > now. It is things missing like: are there release notes, > > > > is there a bug > > tracker, > > github: > > https://github.com/beagleboard/ > > >differentiation between stable and unstable releases, > > no diff, it's a rolling model.. > > > a wiki that's > > kept up-to-date, > > it is, the issue is "3rd party" wiki's.. > > > and what happens if someone crucial is leaving the team? > > He did. that's why we don't ship Angstrom by default.. > > Just to scare you more, i drive an hour every morning and night thru > dark country roads in north minnesota with lots of deer running around > to get to my Day Job. > > Everything i use to build the debian image is on my github account. So > when i smack a 30 point buck or a moose, it should be easy for someone > else to pick up. > > > Now that got me thinking: could it be that this is the underlying reason > for > > issues like these in general? The reason for me to bring it up is that > I'm > > actually wondering if spending my time and effort on the Beaglebone is > the > > best investment, or that there's alternative solutions. The Beaglebone is > > known to be an SBC with a steep learning curve, but I did not expect to > be > > spending time on the issues just mentioned. As an experiment, I have an > > outstanding order which I wonder if that suits me better in the long run > if > > issues occur. So in that sense, this is feedback on something that looks > to > > me as the weak spot of the Beaglebone. I truly think the board is a very > > good platform from hardware point of view, but it would be a pity if due > to > > the issues mentioned it will not survive competition. My guess, and maybe > > the hard part, is that suggested improvements are not easily decided upon > > and implemented by the community - although here's my contribution by > > starting a discussion and sharing thoughts about it. It's more like > defining > > a strategy and improving of the foundation by the core team, after which > the > > community can benefit from it either as users or participants. Having a > less > > well defined quality standpoint, is in a sense the other way round: > despite > > the good intentions, have the community be confronted with issues, then > try > > to solve them. Some frustration being vented here as well as you might > have > > noted, but I guess that’s all in the game. > > You can vent all you want, there's only one user on this forum that's > paid by Beagle Foundation/TI. The rest of use are just volunteer's > who spend our free time working on it, i usually just ignore venter's > unless they have a patch.. > > Ps, now go test, your bug is fixed: > > https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-04-30/ > > Release notes will show up tomorrow on my lunch break .. ;) > > Busy now, as I've got burgers to grill. ;) > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYhmFxCsEfA-WwmEU2znC-fRfgJY_xYpvckKaDxEpS-HtA% > 40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORqVOcM%3D51OMgq11G_e%2B8OGgNTX-oCNHWXwfxvLgX2iM_w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
