[ic] Bugs ?

[Jason Kohles]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:43:15AM +0700, utomo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new in here.
> - I think there is a bugs at the Feature wish list, so I cannot find the
> real feature wish list.
> http://developer.akopia.com/cgi-bin/ic/docfly?mv_session_id=M7DkrAuD&mv_pc=2
> &mv_arg=wishlist0
> 
The developer site is being updated and apparently the wishlist has
been removed for now.

> - When I see the Bug list, I found there are 50 Bugs. I am surprised with so
> many of the bugs, it can reduce the popularity of the Interchange. Hope this
> problem can be reduced/eliminated.
> 
And nearly all of those bugs are in the development version, which is to be
expected from software that isn't finished yet.  I don't think anyone wants
us to get the bug list down to 0, since the only way to do that would be to
stop adding new features to Interchange and just give you version 4.6 for
the rest of your life.

> Other things is:
> - I hope Interchange can provide Interchange for Win, Not only *nix. I
> believe still Many Win server around the world. So if Interchange available
> for Win, the name of the Interchange is real (Not Limited Interchange), and
> will be able to grab more target than before.

Red Hat is primarily a linux company, and so the software they create is for
the most part linux software (you don't see Microsoft releasing versions of
their software for linux do you?)  The great thing about open source is that
if you want a windows version, nobody is stopping you from porting it.

> - Also if possible please just provide one package for all, not like now we
> have RPM for Red Hat Linux 7; an RPM for Red Hat Linux 6 and Linux Mandrake;
> and Debian GNU/Linux packages.

Hate to disappoint you, but this is fundamentally impossible.  If you are using
Red Hat Linux, you need RPMs, if you are using Debian you need Debian packages,
the alternative to doing it this way is to distribute only the .tar.gz file and
make everyone compile and install it themselves, if you would prefer that, the
.tar.gz is available for you.

> - If we review the discussion at mailing list, it is look like the docs is
> not enough, because still many question/problems. I hope there is better
> docs, so people with lower knowledge can set/configure Interchange (say it 4
> from 10 scale knowledge of perl)

If you review the mailing list you will also see that there is a lot of work
going into improving the documentation, in fact we have a full time technical
writer doing nothing but documentation.  Docs don't appear overnight, they
take work.

> - One/two more payment provider is needed, just in case there is problem
> with existing provider. And please choose the biggest/popular one (and
> please negotiate the cost/ don't keep at Thousands $). I think this also can
> help the Interchange user/popularity of Interchange
> 
Interchange supports several payment providers, and 4.8 will support even
more since the payment processing has been completely rewritten.  The cost
of the provider is between you and your processor, we don't have anything
to do with what they charge you.

(These are just my personal opinions, I don't speak officially for Red Hat)
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Red Hat E-Business Solutions                    Jason Kohles
11480 Sunset Hills Road                         Senior System Architect
Reston, VA 20190                                jkohles@redhat.com