J.V. Normally, you would just get ignored, but I think you're making a valid point, albeit in a way that is extremely challenging to listen to. You aren't doing yourself or anyone else a favor by being rude. You have not offered enough pertinent information to help you, and I can assure you that spouting bile will get you ignored in most communities (not just FOSS software).
It might help to remember you're complaining to people that donate their time. Asking them to overcome your inability to follow the instructions *and* put up with a contemptuous attitude to do it is like begging for food and then complaining about how it tastes. If you're interested in actually improving a project, which I'm doubtful of, you might approach it differently. Something like the following would get a much better reception: The installation processd for the tomcat-war based deployment seems overly > complicated. Is there any current effort to minimize the installation steps, > and if not, could I offer my help to do it? > As for the installation procedure, the documented instructions for the war-based deployment should not be different for Tomcat 7 AFAIK. What instructions are you following, and what steps have you done? If it's not working, what are you seeing? Contents of logs? JVM version? Brent On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:40 AM, J.V. <[email protected]> wrote: > How do I install Archiva under Tomcat 7.0.20 and then hit: > > http://localhost:8080/archiva > > ? > > I would like to have a chat session with someone who has done this. I have > spent the last three hours reading every document out there on the subject > and still there are problems. > > Simply pointing me to a web url or saying "try this" will not work, I have > already done it. > > This is very, very frustrating and really should not be any more difficult > than copying a war to /webapps/ > and hitting: > http://localhost:8080/archiva > > This boggles the mind as to why it is not as simple as this. How do I join > the project and school the developers on the importance of making the > product actually installable the way most people would expect to use it. > > very frustrated and I would appreciate someone's help. > > I can chat on gtalk. > > J.V. >
