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You know if this was a new X-Box, or PlayStation, we might be sleeping
in a tent next to the front of the store selling them wait for the
store to be open. Or sleeping in line at the New Opening Release of
Star Wars 12 Return of the O/S... We are all a little bit of a geek
and this stuff gets us going. It is new, it is the latest and greatest
and the expectation slows down the time line to a crawl, and at times
seems like it is going in reverse ( only in our mind )...<br>
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People understand that there is a great deal of work going on in the
back ground, but again most of us don't have a clue about what is going
on or what is needed to put a distribution set out. I'll say it again,
for Version 5.5, lets put up a simple page that details ( not in depth
) some of the steps required to publish the distribution. Show the
mile markers that we need to achieve and check them off as we get to
them. Be like Scotty on Star Trek, "Oh Capitan it will take me 6
months to get the warp engines back on line..." Pad the release time,
then do it in three, at that point you are freaking great programmers
and surpassed all expectations...<br>
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I've worked in distribution sales, and people like to be stroked, even
if you have no new information, information is information and they
know that something is going on. I fought this for many years, with
the answer that... "Hey, nothing new is going on it is the same answer
as yesterday.." But by giving out information even if it is the same
old information makes everyone feel like they are in the loop.<br>
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Here is an example that could have stopped this whole thread...<br>
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First Message...<br>
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" 5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today.
release ~ soon!"<br>
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Next Message....<br>
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"5.4 is still syncing up, this will take some time, but we are moving
forward, more information to follow."<br>
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It doesn't take much to keep people happy.<br>
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As I was typing this, I saw another post which I felt was out of line
and harsh, we need to learn to keep egos in check and understand that
nothing gets done if we keep attacking the people who are doing the
work. They become distracted, and mistakes are more likely to happen.
We don't need to know every detail, the basics will do, and what would
help is getting a bit more information rather than the silence or when
its done message... Again most of this turmoil is due to ignorance on
the part of we who don't know how the process works, and a bit of
arrogance on the part of those who do know, what we need is more
tolerance.<br>
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Being a tolerant person to a degree.. Work on keep on a baking and
lets cook the heck out of Centos 5.4 I can hardly wait...<br>
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John Plemons<br>
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