Re: [Evolution] Red Carpet downtime

[Rodd Clarkson <rodd redfishbluefish com au>]

Actually, I was just commenting on something I've seen a lot having been
involved in open source software.  It didn't have anything to the with
the lack of info from ximian.  We get so used to beta software being
usable that we forget it's available for testing and big changes might
actually occur.


> > As an aside, I find it funny that people in the open source community
> > get so jumpy when software in beta doesn't work.  If we got something in
> > beta from MS we'd be surprised if it worked, but we are so used to
> > running on software that 0.38 (sawfish) or 0.10 (evolution) or 0.9.2
> > (red-carpet) that works fantastically, that we forget that the whole
> > idea of beta is getting it write before you release it, and that we
> > shouldn't be relying to strongly on anything until it's actually
> > released.
>
> Actually, I'm not convinced the issue is the beta status of the
> software.  My beef is that your loyal beta testers and cheerleaders
> were kept in the dark about the outage.  I interpret that as a lack of
> respect for us.  I think that an email going out on this mailing list
> or a message posted on the web site would have been courteous.
>
> I recommend that the Ximian developers take a few minutes and visit
> http://www.cluetrain.com and learn how to interact with their
> customers.
>
> I am still a big supporter of Ximian, install Ximian GNOME on all
> my GNU/Linux boxes and want to use Red Carpet daily to keep my systems
> up to date.  I would also like to be kept in the loop when I'm not
> going to be able to do that.
>
>                                               Hal
>
> -- 
> Hal J Eisen, TMWTMOASS                                eisen dunhackin org
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