Dog Gone

Why do I bother?
I sometimes wonder why I bother. In my position, I deal with criticism on a daily basis. Some of it comes direct to me in emails and pm's.
Then there is negativity by some who lurk on the #puppylinux IRC channel.
Then there are those who post to the forum with superficial, mis-informed, nit-picking, and just plain wrong comments, like in this thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48160

I really don't need the aggravation. The latest contribution on the forum has prompted me to think some more about my retirement.

My original plan was to retire from Puppy development early in 2010. I want to keep working on Woof and do some Genie coding, and that will likely continue into 2010, 2011.

The multi-user improvement -- yes that is a definite contender for incorporation into Woof. That's a short-term goal, I might do that soon.

:confused

Puppy 4.4 and 5.0 are now being developed by the community. That's good. I'll probably give the access to the ibiblio.org site to one or two community members soon.

I won't be bringing out another official Puppy release, so I am now retired in that regard.

What I might do is release a new distro sometime, which is something that I have mentioned before. It will be 100% personal, no irc, no forum, just my thing. In fact, I'm already working on it.
It is not intended to be a general purpose distro.

 

lol u cant keep everyone happy , they need to dragged to one side for a reminder that it open source and if they dont like it they can go else where
keep up the good work mate !
got it in my collection

 

Hello B:

I hear ya.
I was told by someone on the IRC I wasn't smart enough to use Puppy.
But, I Love Puppy. :heart
Please ignore the naysayers. :duck
It steals away your emotional energy and robs your marvelous brain power from thinking up more puppy ideas. :cool
:crap :crap Let "them" stew in their own juice. :crap :crap




Assign someone else to respond to the whinners. Please deligate this aweful task to someone else on the team. Have this team member pass on to you only the helpful suggestions and ideas from the whiners (aka armchair quarterbacks, backseat drivers, authors of the known universe, etc)

Wish we could ban them. :ban

:strongPlease keep your eye on the prize! :strong

The little folks (like me) need your brillience.

I'm a nongeek: one of folks you created puppy for in the first place.

I tried other distros, but was overwhelmed.

But, I installed my first Puppy and was browsing the internet in less than 10 minutes.
:celebrate

It was Puppy 4.21. Ya, I'm a "new kid" on the block.

Cheers :clap

Pete22