On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Matthew Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > stosss wrote: > >> Why is it that you and other developers are so touchy about the book >> and its condition and people pointing out things that could be done >> different, better or whatever? Why do you and the others insist on >> thinking there is nothing wrong with the book and so unwilling to >> improve it? > > I think that's a little unfair. Please remember that both the LFS and > BLFS projects are based on *volunteer* effort and therefore noone should > *expect* to have their particular pet-peeve fixed in any particular > amount of time (or at all in fact). Whilst we do endeavour to address > all suggestions, lack of time or a particular urge to 'scratch an itch' > that a particular developer may not be feeling is more than reasonable > behaviour in such projects. > > Why is the fact that we regenerate the book every day such a problem for > you? If the date of the book hasn't been incremented then it's fairly > safe to say that no changes have been made. > > I don't think it would take too much to change our nightly jobs to not > render a new copy of the book if no changes have been made, but again, > nobody apart from you seems to care at the moment. Given the long list > of defects in BLFS' Trac system I'd wager that most of the devs would > rather spend time tackling them than preventing regeneration of a book > on a server that has plenty of capacity to do so.
Matthew and Bruce, I am not complaining. I am simply asking. I do realize that this is a volunteer project. I am not expecting you to do things as though you have to. I am willing to jump in and help. I am sorry if you have taken offense. That is not my intention. Yes you get defensive and that is understandable. But it would be a lot better if I and others could figure out how to ask more politely and if those taking offense might also be willing to take a deep breath and assume maybe the person is not trying to be offensive. so, again I apologies. I really would like to help. I like the LFS project. I have been looking at some others that are similar. I don't like them as much but their docs seem to be a little cleaner or better in some ways. There really are some areas that could be improved. The nightly snapshots is not a big deal. I don't have a problem with it. i was not sure about what was going on because the book date was still the same. you guys answered that so okay. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
