5 maj 2011 kl. 18.30 skrev Ira: > At 07:56 AM 5/5/2011, you wrote: >> So how can we fix this? How can we get more people involded? What makes >> projects like FedoraTesting[3] and DebianTesting[4] popular? How can the >> Asterisk project reproduce their success? > > Well, it's not a lot of people willing to run beta software on their phone > system. Phones need to work and for most people they need to work perfectly > all the time. I'm one of those oddities that will always run beta software if > given the chance but my experience is that quite rare. > >> As I've said before, I'm more then willing to help with answering questions >> about the testsuite or reviewing code that people want to get merged in. We >> also have an IRC channel, #asterisk-testing available for people to join, >> ask question, idle, lurk, etc, or if you want to reply to this thread, feel >> free. But get involved! :) > > So I'm the person who has never been able to keep 1.8 alive on my system for > more than a minute or two and I've probably tried more than 10 different > betas and release versions. I posted a bug report which was closed in > minutes, I posted the problem on this list every few tries and zero response. > I tried to figure out mIRC. It's installed on my machine but I've never got > past that. I just don't get the instructions. > > I know that all the people involved in the project are Linux heads, but some > of us, like me, have a Linux box only because of Asterisk and if you want my > help, you need to make being involved accessible and stop assuming we all > know what you know. I see the words, "jut post a bug report on Mantis" posted > all the time and I'm sure it means as little to others as it means to me. > Maybe there needs to be a web page somewhere, "Asterisk beta testing for > dummies" so that you can point us to so you don't have to answer the stupid > questions over and over. > > I've beta tested enough and had enough beta testers to understand the kinds > of things that make it possible to get bugs fixed, but it's usually a very > small percentage of users that understand that.
Thanks for the feedback, Ira. It makes me very sad to hear what you say and I hope that we can get more resources from the community to assist in the process to make it more friendly. We want to get those bug reports. The one thing I hate to hear when I'm travelling at conferences is that "oh, I known that bug for a long time but did not bother to report it." Apologies for your experience with the bug process. Regards, /Olle -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
