I started using EMC about two years ago and it has by far the best community of any open source project I have participated in.
Everyone been helpful, understanding, encouraging and a joy to work with, it's nothing shy of amazing that people who have never used Linux before can download a LiveCD, log into the IRC channel and get instant quality help with everything from setting up a distro to tuning servos. I dare anyone to find another Linux software project which can rival that. Some people forget that it takes teamwork to make software, teamwork consists of mediating, constructive critisism, helping others and patience. SourceForge became unusable for a month or two in 2006, I think the only right thing to do move the CVS server, if there are issues with accessing/downloading from www.linuxcnc.org or cvs.linuxcnc.org please provide some information on packet loss or bandwith limitations instead of providing traceroute statistics which go to prove nothing other than that there is a router on the internet that does not play nice with traceroute and that your latency is 156ms. If there are genuine issues with the performanace there are several free options for hosting OSS. Personally I'm not to worried about backups etc since OSS projects have the best backup available by nature, dozens of people have the latest version on their personal machines and if that's good enough for the Linux kernel (which does not even use a central server) I think it's good enough for us. Regarding commit access to CVS I think the current method is fine (when the people who have commit get to bored with you sending them patches they end up giving you access :), why try to fix something that isn't broken. If anyone can a case where this has become a problem I think it would be good to hear about it. Usability has imho been improving steadily for Aunt Tillie, I think she would have a much easier time using Axis and a LiveCD than what was available before. Keep up the good work and don't let the vocal minority get you down. Jarl Stefansson (Dallur) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
