On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:34:19 -0500 "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
>
If you are using Mandrake 8.2 and not getting help in MandrakeExpert, try IRC (see
sig).
There's lots of folks there that will help, and many of us are running cooker, so we
can tell
you if it's been fixed or not.
I did notice several bugs get fixed in cooker that never got "publicized", so don't
assume
that cause you haven't read about it that it hasn't been fixed.
To echo Brian and the others who have responded to this thread -
NO 8.2 BUGS HERE.
--
Murray J. Root
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