[Galaxy Tab  Android Development] thepittbull:
Getting buried... and other pertinent information

@nobleskill,

First and foremost: You're always welcomed here. Seriously. :-)

While everyone's going to have differences of opinions, disagreements and emotional standpoints on things, which to me is really irrelevant in the long run, as their basically electrons floating in the ether anyway. What's important is that all of us still return to discuss the Overcome Experience, the strength and the weakness (and while the praises are nice, contrary to some opinions, we'd like to hear especially about the weaknesses, hopefully constructively (and not the many short, unhelpful "OMG!!! This ROM sucks!!! Fix it!!!" variety that we get here from time to time), so that we can squash the bugs and polish it up in future releases...)

So, please, don't let anyone make you feel unwelcomed here.

In a public forums, there will always be detractors or as you say, haters here, just as there is in real-life too. There's no point taking them to heart, as it only results in heartache. Imagine if AB86 takes every insensitive and callous remarks to heart, we might all be stuck with OC1.0. ;-)

Second point: yup, things get buried. And they get buried here fast. I guess, being one of the most popular custom firmware for the Galaxy Tab does have its drawbacks too. I'd wish noobs would read too before they posts. I'd wish people would stop clamouring for an ETA. I'd wish there'd be world peace, especially in the middle east too. But alas, if only wishes all came true. Just have to go with the flow I guess...

This also the very fact why AB and the team would not have the time to properly go through and address every post, every suggestion or every thought that our users put forth here. Sometimes it's due to time differences, sometimes it's just gets lost in the clutter, sometimes we're all distracted. It happens. We're only human. Take a gander at point 5 of the XDA forum rules, which states:

As a large forum we don't need unnecessary clutter, You're free to edit your message as you like, so if you do not receive an answer revisit your message and see if you can describe your problem better.

Not everyone is online at the same time, it might take a while before you receive an answer.

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As you can see, I guess it happens more often than not, for them to codify it...

But that's exactly why we created The Overcome Experience site (TOE for short) at TeamOvercome.net. It acts as a fixed, but flexible, reference point for all users for the team to communicate clearly to the users without the message being lost in the clutter or getting buried in page 105 of a coming close to 300 page thread.

I'll state again emphatically again: It is never intended to be a commercial site, (though in the future, we might ask for a donation from time to time (not right now though!), to help defray operating expenses, but it's never mean to be a for profit motive when we created it. It's a gathering point for the team as well, for as much as we all love XDA, and it'll always have a special part in our hearts... but there's an inherent inflexibility of a forum to properly cater all of our needs. And I'd hope, you've changed your stance about not going there or participating in the forums there too. I for one, would love to see you there.

And thirdly, to the other pertinent information part of my title: The final release candidate/RTM build of Hermes is already seeded for our testers for a final round at busting its chops. So, to those who are asking, we're hoping to release it tonight (MY time (it's +8 GMT) or in the morning, US time). As ever, there's this little caveat: no promises though, if any showstopping bugs is discovered. The keyword is hoping. I'll post a clearer ETA, after the testing is done. There's some slight changes to how things are done, and some important notes due to this.

Till then. Have fun.

tpb