By the way The font chosen is great for short code snippits, or command line output, but is terrible for reading as plain text . . . just sayin'
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:35 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. dontwirteyourtextinonebighugem > onolithicparagrapshwhichmakespeoplenotwanttoreadwhatyouresaying. 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/ms >> gid/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/CALHSORpg9z9XGRW23HfhdccKEKPGQkgjEeS9Bx%3DPL8u1XbO%2BbQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
