PSA: Deferred Sync Next Friday (9/30)

DataDrake

Just a head's up. We will be deferring sync next Friday (09/30) in order to give more time for @ZachBacon to work through the GNOME 43 update and for additional kernel testing. Thank you for your patience!

Noviterm

Great team decision.

Fratzscherle77

Wie gehts mit Solus nun eigentlich weiter? Es kommt ja überhaupt nichts mehr. Aktuell ist es auch nicht mehr wann passiert da Endlich was?

Spec

Fratzscherle77
Yeah, for users it is kinda difficult to know what is going on - especially for new users or people who want to become new users.
I understand that they are a small team not getting paid for this work but if they don't decide what the future looks like, users just will make that decision.

WetGeek

Spec Yeah, for users it is kinda difficult to know what is going on

Welcome to the Solus Forum. You've been here for five days. When you've been here a bit longer, you'll realize that most Solus updates are released weekly. It's rare that one is postponed until the following week, and when that happens, we are advised in advance why it was necessary. Usually it's because a major upstream update has been released that requires an unusual amount of work for Solus' development team.

Complaining does nothing to speed up an update. Sometimes preparing and releasing one simply takes longer than it normally does for reasons that the Solus team has no control over.

Spec

WetGeek

Thanks for the welcome.
No sure why you think I am only here for 5 days. Guess you mean I only made an account 5 days ago.
Updates are usually on Friday if I remember correctly. I was a Solus user and I am in the Forum for the last few months reading.
I suggest not to put people in one Corner who don't need/want accounts in every Forum.
And I was not complaining. I want Solus to be successful with a great community. That way it will also attract more contributors. But as you can read in the Forum some people are unsure about Solus.
And if you still assume everyone who uses Solus has an account here I can guarantee you there are many people just reading, looking for news or solutions to a problem they might have.

zmaint

WetGeek Agree completely. I for one appreciate the stability this process brings. I can't count the number of times that a bad update that got other "big name" distros, we completely avoided due to the team's diligence. This is VERY much appreciated.

WetGeek

Spec I was a Solus user and I am in the Forum for the last few months reading.

Your forum identifier indicates that you joined the forum five days ago. Not a few months ago.

And if you spent months reading the forum anonymously, you already knew that what I told you is true.

Spec

WetGeek
Do I have to copy-paste my previous comment here so you can read it again?
Insinuating things just because an account is new is not great for a community.

I would say our conversation ends here.

joluveba

I have a question, are we going to get an update today? Or will it be delayed? Please don't feel pressured, just do what it's best for the distro.

Staudey

joluveba Due to some last-minute issues and a couple of team members being unable to work for part of the week (in my case I had the 'rona and could barely leave my bed since Sunday) we will have to postpone the sync a bit more. But there's no final date yet. We will post here when a new sync date has been determined.

tomscharbach

@WetGeek A quiet comment: I started using Solus in 2017. I read the forum frequently between 2017 and 2020, but did not join the forum (October 2020) until I had a question about the possibility of adding Microsoft Edge to the Third Party repository (Josh said "Nope"). I suspect that this forum has many readers who have never joined. Spec apparently is one of them.

Spec

tomscharbach
Thank you.

Plus I just wrote because I understand German and reacted to that german Comment (no sure if all the dislikers understand it).
Like I said, I want Solus to be successful and the Devs to be happy and not under pressure all the time.
And in my opinion (cause that's what it is: an opinion) users (especially new and potential users) should know how the future looks.
Every user is also a potential contributer - never forget that.

brent

nazar You're welcome in the community, as long as you focus on situations and not on people

^^ this, but you will always have someone occasionally snide you/spite you when you try to help them; it's the nature of the beast (global online forum). shake hands and see eye to eye is always the best resolution like this one.

tomscharbach I started using Solus in 2017. I read the forum frequently between 2017 and 2020, but did not join the forum (October 2020)

you are a man of eternal mystery🙂...

nazar

Solus is shaped by its users. Hear my story. I've been Microsoft client for quite a long time. I mean I bought half a dozen of Windows licenses, a few of Windows Mobile, and don't get me started how much money I spent on Microsoft products overall. Then Windows as a service happened. And my interests were betrayed, even if I contacted Microsoft support I could never had any influence. Then I found Solus, where any constructive input was considered and often accepted! It grew on me, and I started contributing, it's my home now :-). @Spec You're welcome in the community, as long as you focus on situations and not on people. It is possible to guide Solus where You want it to be, so chose appropriately.

tomscharbach

brent you are a man of eternal mystery

Nah. I joined the Solus forum, somewhat reluctantly, because I had a question about Microsoft Edge that wasn't answered in the forum, so I joined to ask the question. I got a direct response from Josh, even if it wasn't the answer I wanted. I posted about the Microsoft Edge Flatpak a few times, and then bit by bit started to get more involved.

I'm not a "forum person". I used Ubuntu 2006 to 2017 and never joined or participated in the Ubuntu forum(s), for example. I joined the Ubuntu Budgie forum because I had a question to ask there, too, and I was an active member of the MEI forum for a couple of years to try to push Microsoft into supporting Edge on Linux. But otherwise, pretty much not.

brent you will always have someone occasionally snide you/spite you when you try to help them; it's the nature of the beast (global online forum)

I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another. We see someone come in from time to time and act like a jerk, but I don't think I've seen more than a handful of personal flame wars on this forum over the last couple of years. That is very unusual for Linux forums, except for those that are heavily moderated. We are a good group.

elfprince

tomscharbach I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another.

Agreed. That we are. 😄

brent

tomscharbach I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another. We see someone come in from time to time and act like a jerk

don't really need to add a word to your eloquent response except for when someone does wander in to smack me or someone else I immediately think one thing: they came from a place where it was normal behavior. That strengthens what you said above regarding this forum. We got it good.

Cloak

The weekly or longer update cycle is welcome, many thanks.

WetGeek

Staudey we will have to postpone the sync a bit more.

Huh? What did I use to update five computers this morning? There's more to come for this sync?

Neumie

Staudey No bothers. I hope your fully recovered. The ol 'rona is no fun.

brent

WetGeek sudo eopkg up gave me nothing today or the last week. maybe you had a whirlwind of k-packages?