Hi andrew, On Friday, 17 June 2016 02:19:02 UTC+10, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > Just to be clear: The Qubes Project has not shot down this feedback in > any way. In fact, no one from the Qubes team has had a chance to > respond to it yet. >
in the past, yes, my feedback has been shot down and rejected and not really taken any notice of, perhaps they were not actually part of the Qubes Contributors and I was mistaken in that fact? Because there have been things that have been broken AFTER version 2, and they still have not been addressed. And you are now 2 whole versions later, and it's STILL broken So, naturally, what else am I supposed to suspect? > I mostly agree. > > Drew: Thank you for taking the time to communicate your feedback to > us, and thank you for making the effort to do so in a constructive > way. It is being taken into consideration. > I like Qubes, it's the best system I can find so far for security purposes. It's got bugs that need to be fixed, and I just keep adding to the list of bugs and now I have reported most of them here, all the bugs since version 2 of Qubes that still remain, along with some gripes and frustrations and forward looking at what it planned/suggested. > Please understand that our resources (especially our developers' time) > are very limited, so we can't respond to every piece of feedback we > receive, but we value it all and take it all seriously. Please also > understand that the project has its own road map and its own > priorities, which don't always align with what each individual user > thinks the priorities of the project ought to be, even though our > ultimate goal is always to improve the security of our users. > Time and resources, yes, that they are, and I completely understand that. There are some things that I myself could do to contribute if I knew what tools were required for some of the things, and if I had a GIT account, but I dont' have the account at this time, and thus I can't contribute. All the things I have done are only on my machine and another at the time, and working flawlessly (even though Qubes developers told me that it was "NOT POSSIBLE" in not so similar words. Yes, I can see the roadmap, but the pothole 2 miles back isn't fixed yet. That is where my gripe started. If I was able to code that myself, if I had the knowledge in C that I required to be able to fix it, then I would fix it myself and upload the code to you. But I don't, and thus I can't. I understand that security is the most important, but I just don't want to see this project start to fail like I see many others do. I see projects start and there's a bug I report, then it isn't fixed, and then down the track they have to undo a years worth of coding to fix that bug. Then that project collapses unto itself. That's not something I want to see ever happen to Qubes. And since It's based on a Unix platform on XEN, I don't see the problem arising in that way so much as it's all separate coding. I wish I knew what I could do to help, but there are things that were talked about in the forum here, that I was then going to discuss things, but then I found on GIT that it was going to have a complete overhaul sometime, so I was just leaving it, that's the qubes-manager, which I have cured the bugs here on my end. There are things that are done in the wrong way, which are easy to cure. There are things which I have built my own scripts to do things for me that are just common things that should be done. I have altered code in many qvm-* things just to make things work the way that they are needed to work. The Qubes manager, it really just needs a scrollbar and sorting feature. Simple and fixed. Also, removal of these coloured bars for CPU and RAM... Just text... Remove the overhead for the CPU and have Dom0 without all the EXTRA graphical stuff, to keep it as an administration platform, not as an end-user platform that soaks up the CPU and GPU. I'll end it there for now. Before I start going on and on about it all. Sincerely, Drew. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/c7cb6e2d-2371-48ca-b6c6-b1e9a567c9b9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
