Shorewall users - Sep 2004 - Development Release Support (Shorewall 2.1.*)

As part of my effort to back away from the primary Shorewall support role, I 
am going to change the way that Development releases are supported. It was my 
hope that Development releases would be used primarily by people who need the 
new functionality in those releases but I am seeing a small but steady stream 
of posts on the Development list asking questions about initial installation 
and configuration and about features that are available in earlier releases.

I''m going to ask two things:

a) If you are just getting your feet wet with Shorewall, *please* don''t
run
the development releases. Inexperienced users running unstable software makes 
for real headaches when it comes to trying to diagnose problems.

b) If you are running a development release and have a problem with something 
that is *not* unique to the development release, then please go ahead and 
post on the user''s list (shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net). That
way, we
can hopefully restrict the Development list to those problems that involve 
the new code.

I appreciate your help in making this work and I apologize to those of you who 
have received a "slap on the wrist" from me on the development list.

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
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On Tuesday 21 September 2004 09:44, Tom Eastep wrote:
>
> a) If you are just getting your feet wet with Shorewall, *please*
don''t run
> the development releases. 
For those of you for which English is a second language "...getting your
feet
wet..." is an English expression that means "...getting
started..."
or ...beginning...".

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA  \ teastep@shorewall.net
PGP Public Key   \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key

Tom wrote on 21/09/2004 14:42:13:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 09:44, Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
> >
> > a) If you are just getting your feet wet with Shorewall, *please* 
don''t run
> > the development releases. 
> 
> For those of you for which English is a second language "...getting
your
feet 
> wet..." is an English expression that means "...getting
started..."
> or ...beginning...".
> 
The image that came to my mind was more like "getting your feet deep in 
the mud..." ;-)

thanks for the lesson...