[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] TraumaX:
With all due respect Eqx, your positive ending is lost in the utter negativity of the rest of your post (even though you may have valid points). Therefore, I would like to counter with something more positive and as was suggested, I think your post is off-topic to a large extent, however to try to be on-topic I believe it is positivity that is needed to get past this current situation.

To begin with XDA-Developers has changed. Whether you like it or not, whether it should or shoudln't be, it is no longer just a developers forum. It IS also a place to get 'kewl romz'. It IS also a 'helpdesk' for the many thousands of users here. However, is this a bad thing? One of the first things every learning developer is taught is that feedback is fundamental to creating a good working design. With all these users, you have a wealth of feedback and it is through these users that chefs are able to perfect their roms so well. Embrace them.

In regards to all the fast food cooks...with technology more than any, development is often about creating tools to make a job easier. No one disputes the talent of those who create these tools and the time and effort they put in, but that's no reason to take anything away from those that then use those tools, some of whom may be equally talented.

There are always going to be good cooks, bad cooks, cooks that come and go, and cooks that stay. Accept them all and give respect to all that give up their time to try.

It is a learning process for all, and just because someone may not have come from the 'old school' days doesn't mean to say they can't then become a talented chef, everyone is at different stages of learning. I am sure you have given more than your fair share of help here, however to say it makes you 'puke' when you see some roms that cooks have spent many hours to make is completely unhelpful. Give them a pointer or some advice instead, rather than make them feel bad by putting them down like that.

Encouragement is what is required. Not trying to chase them out. Today's cook getting it wrong, may well be the one who follows it all through, begins to learn and understand it better and becomes the next top chef, or the one who makes some great breakthrough that you will then be praising.

For many, if not all chefs, creating their particular rom I'm sure is a personal project. If they want to take a stable rom, make it faster and better then that's great. If they want to take a buggy beta and see what they can do with it, then fantastic...good luck to them. It is their project and not for anyone else to say whether it's right or wrong to do.

This is a fantastic site with a huge abundance of knowledge, talent and (selfless) help. I sincerely hope that the good will of sharing all this amongst everyone is preserved. It is what make the site so successful and why people are upset when they feel this is being eroded and feel action is required if there are any injustices.

Everyone here is different, different race, background, culture, religion, attitude but brought together for the same reason, to get the best out of their chosen device, forging friendships across the world at the same time, but with all these differences also come a huge potential for conflict and I really believe the continued harmony of a community this big can only be preserved to best effect through the philosophy of openness and sharing.

In hope. :cool: