On 09/09/17 12:23, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Saturday, September 9, 2017, Johnson Steward <i...@jsteward.moe> wrote: >> Hello, >> I've been messing with Gentoo FreeBSD these days and, finally, got to the > current latest version available. As upgrading is really a tiring process > (lots and lots and lots of bootstrapping the tool chain and bunches of > blocks in the current stages), I'm thinking of sharing my currently working > system as a staged for further testing for those who are interested. >> Yet I can't come up with an appropriate location for the stage4 to be > hosted. 1.4GB is obviously too large for a pastebin even if > bzip2-compressed, and consumer-level cloud storage providers like Google > Drive or OneDrive will create unnecessary chaos when trying to actually > install the system (virtually impossible to interact with that > JavaScript-based system within the FreeBSD livecd), and I don't have an > account for Google Cloud Storage or AWS either. >> Is there a suitable location to host such a stage? I'm currently not a > Gentoo developer, yet I really want my work to benefit the Gentoo FreeBSD > community. >> Thanks, >> >> Johnson Steward > > Contact desult...@gentoo.org. > While I am willing to help people find suitable avenues for contributions to Gentoo; that reply, especially unqualified and coming barely half an hour after the initial post was made, rather strongly implies that I would be the right point of contact to actually get the stages hosted. That is simply not the case.
I would, at best, have directed them similarly to how robbat2 did, probably while lacking some of the details which he posted. Further, they were already posting on gentoo-dev, so they were inquiring somewhere that is virtually assured of reaching suitable persons. So, please, if you are going to suggest to others that they contact me to help them find a suitable point of contact, do not do so on gentoo-dev (as they have almost certainly reached suitable persons already), and make it explicitly clear that I would only be helping them find a suitable point of contact with which to proceed. > Thank you for your work. There's still lots of things that are harder than > they should be. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 >
