Re: Who do you have to sleep with / bribe / shoot to get an answer about RAID support
> Excuse me, but how exactly is yet another snobbish tirade helpful to
> anyone? The "do it your own damn self" responses are useless, not
> helpful to anyone and only serve to boost the ego of the writer.
> Offers to help are useful. Offers to work together are useful.
> Suggestions of other people working on this are helpful. Yet another
> snob wanting to feel superior by saying "do it your own damn self"
> ISN'T.
The -boot list isn't a good place for this conversation, either, frankly.
But people would like to see you understand how things work, and so they
are trying to work with you.
How about a different tack:
You are a corporate user. You are asking people to do things for free to
help your business run better that you have not yet (as far as I can see)
expressed willingness to support. If you want to 'encourage' someone to
do something, you could try bribing them with a hardware donation or some
financial support. It Can Work.
--elijah
> Mark Demma
> iWin, Inc.
> Senior Network and Systems Administrator
>
> http://www.iwin.com/
> http://www.playsite.com
>
> On 14 Apr 2004, at 14:44, elijah wright wrote:
>
> >
> >> Or doesn't work, as the case may be. I'm just making a request,
> >> something that I really think should have been included ages ago if
> >> Debian wants to be seriously considered beyond hobbyists. No need to
> >> get into a snit and make personal attacks for some one making a
> >> request for a feature. Debian has many many many fantastic
> >> virtues... being attacked by people for pointing out glaring
> >> omissions and saying "hey guys, you really should do this if you want
> >> to be taken seriously" is NOT one of them.
> >
> >
> > If something is not getting any attention, then it probably means that
> > not enough people with the appropriate technical skills give a shit
> > about it. This is usually a good barometer of whether something is
> > useful to the established masses of serious users or not.
> >
> > If you care about it, then you are the logical person to work on those
> > features. I think other people have already told you this.
> >
> > No one works on things they don't care about - you get very bad output
> > if you are 'forced' to do something you don't want to do.
> >
> > elijah
> >
> >
> >> Mark Demma
> >> iWin, Inc.
> >> Senior Network and Systems Administrator
> >>
> >> http://www.iwin.com/
> >> http://www.playsite.com
> >>
> >> On 9 Apr 2004, at 23:14, Christian Perrier wrote:
> >>
> >>> Quoting Mark Demma (mark@iwin.com):
> >>>
> >>>> this happen on my own. Its a shame that something this important
> >>>> is
> >>>
> >>> No it is not a "shame". I maybe overreact because I'm not a native
> >>> speaker but calling this a "shame" as we call this in french "c'est
> >>> une honte" is needlessly aggressive, especially to people who are
> >>> currently doing other work on Debian Installer even for getting it
> >>> install on that old Sinclair.
> >>>
> >>> You may regret this, for sure. But, well, this is the way Debian
> >>> works for years : things are done when someone has enough interest
> >>> AND skills AND time for doing them.
> >>>
> >>> So, sorry to say this, but if software RAID is that important for
> >>> you that the world should stop if you don't have it....make all your
> >>> possible for finding someone to do it.
> >>>
> >>> *this* is definitely the way Debian works.
> >>>
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