Hi Jon, Am 06.01.2014 um 19:31 schrieb Jonathan Craig <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Ben Walton via buildfarm >> I was recently surprised when a user declined becoming a maintainer >> because even after watching the video they thought it was still dark >> magic. I don't have a way to gauge the skills of this person, so I >> can't measure the person against the problem, but it was still >> noteworthy. >> > > I must admit that my interaction with the build environment leaves me 1) > amazed > at the flexibility and power included, 2) frustrated that every time I use it > I find myself relearning and/or struggling to figure out the process > as it seems > to subtly change in ways that you'll only know if you follow the dev > list closely and > commit the stuff mentioned on there to memory.
That is not good. However, I have the impression that we don’t have the manpower to bring it to a „stable“ state. > I'm also faced with moving past Solaris 10 and the only viable pkg repo is > unixpackages.com, the commercial follow-on to sunfreeware. The pricing is > reasonable enough and my past experience with sunfreeware leads me to > believe the packaging quality will be good. Do you think there would be more users if we were to offer an IPS repo? > My preference is for a community supported repository solution as the > attention span of corporations can be limited. My worst nightmare would be > to have my eggs in a blastwave type basket and have it fold underneath me. Do you mean by Blastwave-type a project where only binary packages are offered (like unixpackages now) ? Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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