On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:30:00AM -0500, Plug Head wrote: > > Let's suppose, for just a moment, that you've been subscribed to the Cooker > mailing list for a few months (on-and-off) and, when you do a search (on the > flood of e-mail that you've received--relevant to a bug that has mangled your > partitions--and you were smart enough to ignore "Mandrake Expert" because > you realize that it's a cruel joke of some sort), you can't find anything > even remotely related to what you're trying to report.
I don't think I got all of those "if...and"s, but I think I got the jist. > Would it not then be reasonable to post a query to the "cooker"? No. Cooker is for reporting bugs and issues that you experience directly by running a Cooker system. > Sure, it'll > probably be ignored, Then you know it does not belong on Cooker. > but where else would you post it? I dunno. And I don't really mean to make this a "not in my backyard" issue, but it is not the fault/problem of folks who help test and develop Cooker that you don't have somewhere to report and/or get help for your release version software bug. If MandrakeExpert is a problem for you, then work to solve that problem. Please don't push that problem onto the Cooker crew. > (I know that > the Mandrake-cooker crew has talent--they've surprised me before. So you think it's alright to abuse that talent and ask them to do something they did not sign up for? Cooker is not a "Mandrake release version" help desk. > But it > seems to take a release or three, just to get their attention...) Again, not a Cooker problem. If you want to get involved with Cooker, and are prepared to run unstable software and want to help test and report bugs and maybe even help fix a few, please, by all means come aboard. But please don't use Cooker for your "release software" help desk. I am sure Mandrake must have support options that you can excercise if this problem is really that important to you and you cannot solve it yourself. > P.S. If you're wondering why I'm babbling about this, please refer to the > message titled "PCMCIA Netcard works! Partitioning is still ugly tho..." I ignored that thread right from the getgo. I don't have anything to do with PCMCIA devices. Sorry to sound so harsh, but just getting through another day of huge Cooker e-mail volumes and I don't really have that much left in me to sugar coat. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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