Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

Bobby McNulty wrote:

> Sorry for the insult, but under Harolld, he would have everything tested
> on different machines and configurations. I'm running Windows XP
> professional with Service Pack #2. Find out what the others are using.

I have currently two machines for testing:
Win2k SP4
WinXP SP2 running on VmWare

Both are at work. The compilation and release building is done on the
Win2k host. At home I have no decent machine to test the xserver. Only
a 500MHz linux box where I can cross compile and test the xserver in a
pain slow VmWare win2k. I'd like to add a machine dedicated for windows
to make debugging less painful. But where should I take the money from?
I spend a lot of time for the project. Should I also spend the money
I saved? I don't think so. And everytime someone speaks up and tells
me I'm not doing the work right I even think spending the time may be
wrong.

Even a simple bugfix is a lot of work. For example the Lucida font were
missing because of a regression in the makefiles. Identifying the error
took me about 2 or 3 hours. This I could do at home. For building the
packages I had to go to the office. Just building the package, verifying
it worked, uploading it and writing the announcement took about 90 minutes.
And if you check the sending time of the announcement you'll notice it was
sent Friday night, around 23:00. I don't expect people to send me flowers
for my work. But I expect them not to insult me in complete disregard of
the amount of time I invest in the project.

It was also mentioned I (and other regulars) could answer mails more polite
and tell the user which information I need to track the error down.

There was a time when the xserver just quit on error and left a log file.
Users just told us the xserver did not work. We told them there was an error
and asked them to send the logfile.
After all we added a message box which told the user there was an error and
the logfile may contain more information. Now there are still users who
send mails telling us there was a message box popping up and XWin does not
work. No information what the logfile told. The standard (and maybe rough)
answer is "send the logfile".
There are many examples where I'm just tired of telling the same thing over
and over again.

bye
        ago, heading to bed now
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