This is a post about The Puppy Experience and its improvement [a mini roadmap to some] ....
with a suggestion for Top 5 lists, and I start by introducing the idea for them with -
Top 5 puppy problem solving wishes on a personal wishlist
mine: a broad brush wish list
- 1/ Diff dotpets
I am most disappointed that we, collectively, users and devs, have failed to keep rudimentary organised information for each puppy series, or derivative, with all known hardware fixes, patches, updates, and anything which could have been put into a diff dotpet.
e.g. add this diff dotpet to let your series X puppy have all known fixes - I suppose it was what prompted ttuuxxx to start 214X, based on 214R, based on 214, but it sort of grew [almost] out of control.....
2/ Network connection reliability
Despite humungous effort by rerwin, tempestuous, and others, getting earlier puppies to connect to the web seems to have been a recurring problem, with noobie posts often saying, I get a 169.254.xx.xx IP address
This seems to have been because of a DNS problem - maybe an assumption was made about routers, or DNS server being at a router IP address. nonetheless, there is something still not identified - later puppies using Barry's simple network script or the later network tool occasionally still exhibit the same behaviour
....and why did the network tool need to be run twice before it would work?
3/ Puppy manual
Grant's manual is now a bit outdated, and a bit too version specific, we need a good full-featured, generic manual, including adding and working with multiple SFS's, scanners, printers, windows file-sharing via a cut down Samba or pnet, and browser tips to keep bookmarks out of the save file - hopefully soon to be addressed by puppyluvr
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 852#544852When I was working on the Puppy 4 "Dingo" Manual, I realized that Puppy grows to fast for a specific manual..
But an overall, generic manual, could be compressed, and included in the base ISO.. Several are doing this already... I hope they join me here...
4/ Got to get a mention. Responsibility for Forum chaos
Threadget attempts to address lost information. We all know, or should do, that many fixes have been posted, but got lost. I DON'T like the blame game.
Responsibility is the solution, and we must all take our share, as no one user/dev/forum owner or admin is responsible - it's a borg thing,
"We are Puppy - When we find it, we'll assimilate it!"
5/ I was going to do 10, but 5 is surprisingly hard, remember top 5, so, finally it has to be Inertia - resistance to change
There is huge inertia in many people's minds, which actually, occasionally, more often than I'd like to see, gets in the way of progress, and goes all the way up, to John M in the forum and Barry K as lead developer
Many good people have left the Puppy forum because their energies were subverted by naysayers, and spoilers, and they simply got fed up, and moved on
Please, people, can we engender a bit more positivity - if someone starts on a moan, don't get into that old habit of lining up to add weight to it, it is enough on its own, and it takes over threads very rapidly, often unchecked, causes problems for original posters, admins/moderators and site owner, John M
OK, puppy and its development IS chaotic, fluid, dynamic, and fast...all things we love, but unless we keep attracting and keeping new devs, and testers, and fully happy users, who can come here and find solutions in a friendly environment, and can hold on to the ones who we all rely on for development, [thanks guys/gals ] we are continuing to shoot ourselves in the foot
Also, post any ideas to add to the suggested list of Top 5s
IF, when we get PLUG going, I further suggest we initiate a rolling program of top 5s, to more readily identify user, dev, moderator, site owner, and even onlooker, potential noobie, suggestions alike
e.g Suggested other Top 5 lists
- Wish list,
Likes,
Uses for puppy,
Why I don't use XXX
Softwares,
Fixes,
Bugs,
Puppy targets, e.g ARM, PPC MAC, netbooks, 2 tier development, old/new hardware specific versions
etc
At this point, I'd like posts that are your own top 5 list, rather than comment about mine or someone else's, however, if you have similar ideas, it will promote prioritising users wishes up the list
These will hopefully get incorporated into PLUG once the admin nominees get it together
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69437
Thanks
Aitch