[WBEL-devel] IA64 ISO's -- any available?

[Johnny Hughes]

Milan,

What I believe they are saying is this:

John Morris is meeting the needs of the Library, and as such he is
providing WBEL for that purpose.  He will maintain it.  He doesn't want
help compiling the files, sending out updates to the mailing-lists, etc.

There is no pressure on John to complete updates for anyone but the
Library (except that he likes Whitebox and us and wants to provide the
updates to everyone).  John will provide the updates when he can,
usually within 1 working day as a goal ... but maybe longer for the
major updates, or when he is out of town.

If WBEL also works for you and your situation with these restrictions,
great ... if it doesn't, then you should start a different distribution
with all the community involvement that you want. 

Seems to me that Jamie has said that they will put the IA-64 ISOs and
files on the whitebox.org server so they can be distributed.

Personally, I would also like to see some of the things donovan nelson
is trying to accomplish at whiteboxlinux.net (a forum for help, a
bugzilla, user provided packages, etc.) ... but John is in control of
WhiteBox Linux and he is making the decisions.

He has no magic script to compile the source files.

At first I wanted more community involvement and to help as well ...
however, all of that at cAos has caused CentOS to be changed and
delayed, while Whitebox is prety much usable and deployable as is
(including several ftp and http yum/up2date sites).  I think both
methods are viable ... Just my take.

- Johnny Hughes


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:33, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:43:49PM -0600, Vicki Reeves wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 02:27, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> > > You don't want to underestand what I posted.
> > 
> > Actually, I did understand what you posted.  As you spell out below, you
> > have pressing need for the project to be farther along than it is at
> > this time.  Because the need is pressing, you are passing the pressure
> > along.  That does not make you a 'bad guy' but it's probably not healthy
> > for you or for the project.  So, I am suggesting that you take another
> > look at your situation and see if there is someway that you can relieve
> > the pressure in another direction - perhaps one that does not unload a
> > lot of negativity on the project.  Again, Milan, I did not mean to imply
> > that you are a 'bad guy' - if you understood me to say that, I'm sorry
> > that I was not more clear.  Thanks for your consideration.
> 
> Think one more time: You and Morris have no time to deal all what should
> be done ASAP. So the logic way is allow others to help. I'm talking
> about helping, not stealing.
> 
> Morris has weekend when Update1 arrived. Everyone will be very unhappy
> when Morris will leave for holidays or so. The project could be good but
> will be more and more unusable this way.
> 
> All what I want is lower pressure and not raise, do you underestand?
> 
> There ARE very easy steps I wrote about but you do not listen and you
> always talking about pressure. Yes. You will be under high pressure
> because there will be a lot more to do than today and than yesterday.