I dislike the style of this kind of letters, specially when directed to
Bernd and Jeremy, who appart from others (like Michael or yourself, also
testers like Alain, and many more) are working quite actively to get the
project alive.
Eric Auer escribió:
>>What stops you from collecting those files yourself?
>
>
> Having to work, simple.
Just as the rest of us, mere mortals. Perhaps you haven't noticed this.
I appreciate very much your work in many projects, even with work you
seem to have more time to commit to FreeDOS than the rest of us, which
is good. But your messages are full of "please do this", "please test this".
And after all I am NOT the FreeDOS distro
> maintainer. Guess who is. Having at least a delta-update twice per
> year is really not asking too much. I am not asking for a whole new
> ISO every few months or anything. You know how many bugs got fixed
> since 12/2004, and people still have to update every file manually.
>
> (Now if there would be at least a LIST of things which got updated
since...!)
>
D.I.Y.
Rant mode: I do not care whether ODIN is a daily build or a manually
uploaded diskimage. Nor do I care whether it is by you or by Jeremy.
But I really hate having to tell people again and again that they have
to update several packages after installing ODIN or FreeDOS beta 9 sr 1,
also having to tell people the URLs or at least names of all those
packages again and again. The wasted time would probably have been
enough to update beta 9 sr 1 *and* ODIN myself in the meantime. But am
I the maintainer? No. Do I even have a CD-writer to test such an updated
ISO image? No. Sorry guys.
There's something you can do. Create a webpage called "FreeDOS upgraded
components since Beta9 xxx", with a table of the components that have
been upgraded, the latest versions and link to where to get them. You
are plugged to the list just as the rest of us are, so there wouldn't be
problems to have it updated, specially because if the page is made
public, developers would also be interested in having it updated (thus
you would be informed).
Aitor
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