community etiquette (Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?)

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-12-04 09:46 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 05:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> The results I found have been two years in the making? Yikes!!!

> Yes. I do keep saying this stuff is hard and encouraging you to read the
> design documentation and relevant blogs to understand how we got to
> where we are. I don't know why this is apparently so difficult.

Maybe not everyone here knows why, but I refuse to believe _you_ don't. 
Combing docs is un-fun, made less fun by their mass, and even more so by 
Fedora's web doc presentation.

> no 'n00b' has tried it at all yet, as n00bs don't run Fedora
> betas.

I don't know. It's often the case a n00b with a new puter wants to try Linux, 
does so, finds his hardware is too new to be supported by the latest release 
version, and gets a suggestion from a general purpose forum to try a 
nearing-next-release beta.

> Sometimes being a multibooting expert who refuses to read documentation
> or explanations makes things harder, not easier. :)

It's really not so much refusal as un-fun impediment. Mailing list posts are 
_much_ more fun, because they're virtually always legible, and presented by 
normal humans instead of deezignerz.

> saying you'll
> only test something if it works really well appears to be putting the
> cart before the horse.

There's only really one feature I want from Anaconda, one which doesn't seem 
to exist. Neither seems to exist a workaround or substitute for its absence. 
I won't be the only one who wants it. Looking for it in a release version 
would be too late, but looking for it often seems pointless. For now, yum 
upgrading a minimal F17 installation in order to test F18B function lets me 
spend more time evaluating things I can understand and less time frustrated 
by unfamiliar paradigms.
-- 
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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