Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Apr 4 01:10:14 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 14:25, Craig White wrote:
> >On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:08 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Monday 03 April 2006 13:43, Craig White wrote:
> >> >On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:27 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >> On Monday 03 April 2006 12:18, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >> >I maintain, it's all there.
> >> >>
> >> >> It may be on *that* screen, but thats not the screen one would
> >> >> intuitively use for that. Those options should be fully
> >> >> available at the top of the drive prep menu, and I don't have a
> >> >> quarter to call somebody who *thinks* they are simplifying it for
> >> >> Joe & Jane Sixpack and tell him/her thay they are an idiot for
> >> >> doing it preemptively, long before one is even thinking of how
> >> >> the target drive is to be prepared. Just like the organization
> >> >> line in my headers, absolutely none.
> >> >
> >> >----
> >> >there is a mechanism for providing feedback...bugzilla. I've read
> >> > it here many times...it's not a bug if it's not in bugzilla.
> >>
> >> Yes, and the dubious geneology of bugzilla has been discussed here,
> >> at length, many times in several, often unprintable languages. It
> >> maybe is improving from my last meeting with it, but simple it
> >> isn't. Most (including me) would rather not have a brainless script
> >> second, third, or forth guessing what it is we're trying to say.
> >
> >----
> >seems to me that since Red Hat and Fedora absolutely rely upon
> > bugzilla for bug reports and repairs, enhancement requests and all
> > other errata for their packaging and have done so for quite some
> > time.
> >
> >Recognize that if you don't provide feedback, your opinions languish
> >here and go nowhere and are not considered and not relevant to the
> >decision makers (i.e. the packagers, in this case -
> > fedora-developers). It is your choice whether you interact with
> > bugzilla or not.
> >
> >When I want my opinions to actually count (be considered), I put them
> > in bugzilla attached to the appropriate package. When I want to get
> > on a soap box and shout into the abyss...this is a suitable place.
> >
> >As to your insinuation of the 'dubious genealogy of bugzilla', it has
> >served the development system for RHL, RHEL and now Fedora for a great
> >many years and is integral to the development. While less than
> > perfect, it is a system that is used in a vast array of software
> > projects but you could actually put in a bugzilla entry on bugzilla
> > itself I would guess...that is if you identified something that
> > needed fixing.
> >
> >Craig
>
> A correction here, Craig.
>
> It has served to insulate the developers from the feedback obtainable by
> listening to the real world because they don't have the time to listen
> to all the senseless babble here. And I agree that much of it is
> exactly that.
>
> In that insulating effort it is absolutely unsurpassed in its
> effectiveness. Nothing else I've encounterd has succeeded in
> deflecting bug bitches from getting to the real people who might listen
> and act as well as bugzilla has over the years. Navigating that to
> actually file a report has been improved some over the years, but I
> dare say it still turns away 95% of the people who go there. 5 years
> ago I daresay the reject rate was 99.9%, so I'll admit there has been
> some improvements. OTOH if you make it too easy, then it turns into
> this list, and thats equally non-productive.
----
what do you cite as the source of these statistics?
Does the above citation count entries that are marked 'notabug' as part
of the 95% turn away?
FWIW - I did a report within bugzilla and found no entries tied to
"gene.heskett" whatsoever - which I assume means that you have not
submitted nor cc'd yourself to a single report in the bugzilla history.
Are you relating first hand experiences here (because I don't see any
evidence of that) or are you referring to your general impression of
bugzilla?
Craig
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