On Saturday 02 November 2002 01:39 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > From: "Gordon Rowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > As for devinfo - I too worry about where it is heading. I would like > > to see development activity, but the list has been extremely quiet on > > that front. > > It is extremely difficult to take this statement seriously when on the > one hand you (understandably) won't commit resources to making > it possible to back-port outside development work to non-current > releases, and on the other hand do not provide any information > about where your own development is heading or time frames > for release. This means that any outside development that > interacts with or depends on any existing SME framework will very > likely be obsolete before it is finished. No one knows when you > will release your next version or what it will contain - and you have > made that policy very clear.
Since a little while after the sale of e-smith to mitel the information about "...where......(the) development is heading..." has dried up. In the past Mitel has taken this course and been more or less up front about this. This is their right to do so. Unfortunately your point below is also well taken, as there is little point in trying to help out when the plans for the product are held too closely to help out in it's development. BTW, this is not the first or second time this thread has shown up, which in itself is quite sad. > > I just upgraded several servers in our main office and would have > loved the convenience of using SME instead of RedHat but I need > to maintain a number of customizations and decided that without > knowing more about where SME is headed and when it will get there > it just wasn't worth it. SME has two things going for it: your network > and support services (which I basically don't need), and the ease of > installation and administration (if you don't need to customize much). > > However if you have to change anything at all, you really have to > look at where you are headed in the long run. Every potential user > and customer has to ask if they want to install a system with a huge > community of developers that nearly all interact openly so updates > and new developments can be added piecemeal, or if they want to > only have access to things a few people know how to improve and > everyone else has to wait for them to put the pieces together. > > There is a place for both, but with the increasing popularity of Linux > the place for the former is growing rapidly. Well that is why I switched to another distro for what I was using Mitel for. Mitel was smart enough to ask why, but my response while it contained what you are pointing out among other things, wasn't (apparently) enough to begin to change Mitel's chosen course. Oh well ! Bob > > ---- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
