On Wednesday 30 June 2021 06:21:01 Les Newell wrote: [...] > Could Jeff have worded his announcement better? In hindsight yes but > remember the only way anything gets done around here is if someone > volunteers to do it. How many of the people here screaming about their > rights have actually bothered to contribute to maintenance of the > source code and the website? If you don't like something how about > fixing it, rather than getting upset? > > Les > Since so many have fussed over the arbitrary imposition of a CoC, I may as well bare my one beef.
When volunteers do offer help, monetarily or hardware wise, in this case I offered both money and|or a pi to be used in the buildbot when the stability of what was being used to generate armhf versions of linuxcnc meant it was crashed a goodly percentage of the time. I made such an offer along those lines twice, and it wasn't even acknowledged either time, let alone discussed. I took that as an NIH response and dropped it. Since this truly is an all volunteer thing I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of response to my offers, but I didn't go off in a huff, I just built my own buildbot out of the pi. But a pi3 it must be admitted was a little slow taking about 8 to 12 hours to build master. The 2 gig pi4 with its usb3 interface for adapters to SSD's shaves that down to around an hour. Both of them need active cooling and 5 amp supplies to get power failure to power failure uptimes. That lack of any kind of response disappointed me a bit, and I still blame it on an NIH attitude, but I've been known to be the upstart troublemaker since 1946. Maybe I didn't use the correct language? IDK. If we are to have a CoC, the NIH attitude should be addressed in it. Now back to lurking, and helping where I can. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
