by
igorp » Tue Jan 07, 2020 1:13 pm
The sound worked on July 18th and it is working now. I have used Nanopi T4 on my summer holidays as a media player. my kids would not watch cartoons for three weeks without a sound. No idea why you didn't have sound.
Major updates are very stressful and expensive events. They can easily costs 10 - 20.000 EUR and between major ones we have bug fix releases. I would gladly skip them to save my time, but then other part of never satisfied "customers" who gets everything for free, who are happy with updates will write us similar frustrating messages. I am not sure this will do any good.
I truly understand your frustration when something doesn't work, but please please, don't push that on us. No, we can't go from bottom up and fix everything. It is not possible for the 3.000 EUR which you granted to the project for whole year. We also don't have know-how on all areas and we are way too little to cover a job that normally costs millions.
If you have a problem, hire help. Leave us and I would also say, leave FriendlyARM out. No company, not even a Google can provide a support users sometime wants.Other two at least make money, we use our own money to be able to help you. I know you know that, but are you able to look on this thru my eyes?
Does Armbian collect some statistics on the operation of its operating system?
It seems to be a list of problems, and each item in the list is solved and crossed out ???
We tried
https://github.com/armbian/testings and we are still trying to improve
https://github.com/armbian/autotests ... just its destined to fail without your help. I can't put two full timers - which is estimated as a need that this will jump up.
There are 100,500 duplicated topics created on the Armbian site, where everyone wants to separate this question into a separate topic, although (in 70% of cases) there are answers in neighboring topics.
I agree on that. Forum is getting messy -
ad is out for almost one year. Not a single one approached while I am running out of options and ability to moderate it. I can try to limit access down more to make it smaller and manageable. Which is bad again. What if good people go and bad remains. You will complain again
But ... start the official version of the operating system - EVERYTHING works and IMMEDIATELY. And sound and communication
Will we change on better because of this? With the same resources we had to drop something. You propose less updates, while it can help (perhaps to get more rest) to save some time but I am not sure this is good enough.
Our main product is anyway a build engine, not exactly a particular board support. But even without, support is in most cases at least as good or bad as stock. Not worse as you are trying to use as an excuse telling us that we are just not good enough.
Happy 2020!
