A brief recap of the "Which SATA controller to purchase" thread, "OpenBSD Hardware Sales" thread, and all the MetaStore threads:
-user asks misc@ which hardware to purchase for OBSD 3.Y. The user wants to know how to match supported chipsets with actual products. -the list says, "Gee, wouldn't it be swell if we had a system for tracking which hardware worked on a given OBSD release." Theo tells the list his time is too precious to waste building such a system (and I agree). He repeatedly says, "You can do this." -SZECHUAN ACTUALLY DOES IT!! ( I think this the mythical Step 3: ???? on /. ) -OBSD users nitpick the creator (and NOT the work) rather than help improve the resource. Despite repeated attempts to give his work to the community, Szechuan is persecuted for being a network admin fascist (which he is- the same goes for all of you who straight drop packets from Linux boxes). This whole situation is very sad. Without wasting the devs effort for a single line of code, a goose which is 80% of the way to laying golden eggs will get scrapped because few of you have even a shred of tact or grace. This MetaStore could be a very nice stream of revenue for the project (not to mention the untold satisfaction it will give when we can just post it's URL in response to stupid questions about hardware) if only everyone could put their egos aside and just use the resource and help. I am NOT saying the devs should waste any time working on this. I'm saying members of the community who have web dev experience (a few of you already stepped up in previous threads), should help polish off the store. The project should host it when it begins collecting revenue from referrals. Why can't we ALL win??
