Hacking Wiilinux "Miight" Beta Released

[azeazezar]

Umm...yeah. Releasing 'private' stuff in an IRC CHANNEL is NEVER, EVER, EVER, a good idea.

Always do private beta testing through queries and PMs to people you know and/or trust.

Sorry about your project getting leaked, but you have to have more control over this stuff man.

The irc channel has about 12 ppl in it, the beta testers.
How much more control do you want?


EDIT: Posted here on muzers request, strait from the secret dev channel. He has some minor isp-problems, so he couldn't post heree himself.

QUOTE(Muzer @ Nov 12 2008, 12:09 AM) I know it was naive of me to release it on an IRC channel, but I only asked people in who I thought I could trust to be sensible and realise that since it wasn't on all the major sites, etc, I didn't want it to be released. I did not want it to be private as such, but I did not want it to be public, either. I didn't make it clear, but as I said, I expected people to have more sense. Still, you can and do overestimate some people's intelligence, and I should really have put a message in the topic saying that it was private. Still, as long as no torrents or other uploads appear, no long-term harm has been done.

The reason why I was so angry at it being released has got a really good example here. Since I did not do a real release, sites like that have been guessing the facts, and in this case, getting them horribly wrong. Many people would criticise the way I have put together this distro, and I certainly didn't want to associate myself with the GC Linux Team like that.

Again, no hard feelings to whoever did leak it, I don't care if you want to come forwards or not, but I will respect you no less if you do come forwards.

I hope I have cleared this up, and I hope that no more harm comes of this. It could not have appeared at a worse time, as my internet has been acting really slow, but luckily for me, some people are online on the IRC channel and are posting my message on all other news sites they can find, so hopefully the message will have before long spread enough for the issue to be completely forgotten about.

Another reason why I wanted to finish it, as I explained, is because there isn't enough polish. There is no readme, many elements of the GUI look ugly, and I was hoping of being able to get USB WiFi dongle drivers working (though that has caused some problems), since internal WiFi isn't and won't be supported until bootmii. I wanted to give it a lot more polish than it has at the moment, including proper usage and installation instructions, four separate distros varying in size and purpose, etc etc. So I hope you will all understand my situation and that I will not get any angry flaming, though

I do not blame you if you do feel the need for flames, but bear in mind the number of flames will be inversely proportionate to the amount I feel motivated to do this.

Hope you all understand,
Muzer.

READ ABOVE QUOTE

 

[Muzer]

Just got the internet working long enough to post another reply (stupid DNS errors), and I would just like to confirm that the quote in the above post is indeed me speaking, and not a forgery or anything.

EDIT: I have found out who has leaked it. It was definitely an accident, as it turned out he actually openly announced in the channel (when nobody was active) that he was going to post it on wiibrew, and was as I expected in the previous post, just lack of intelligence, or maybe just not thinking due to the excitement. I do not disrespect him any more, and providing this project continues, he will still be allowed in the private beta tests if I keep them semi-public like this. I am not going to reveal his name for his embarassment's sake.

 

[djdynamite123]

ok no problem Muzer

 

[Muzer]

The person who origianlly leaked it actually found out the new URL and put that on wiibrew. I renamed the file again and removed any way to find out its location, so don't bother trying.

I have now banned him from the channel, since two leaks just cannot be accepted. I am not cancelling the project though, as the second leak could easily be rectified.

 

[djdynamite123]

The person who origianlly leaked it actually found out the new URL and put that on wiibrew. I renamed the file again and removed any way to find out its location, so don't bother trying.

I have now banned him from the channel, since two leaks just cannot be accepted. I am not cancelling the project though, as the second leak could easily be rectified.
QUOTEI am not cancelling the project though,

good news

You ain't half having problems with certain users aren't you Muzer, might have been someone else re-linking the download on wiibrew from what they got when it first got out......maybe??

 

[gllt]

Might be about to time to move to password protected archives, yeah?
Though, it wouldn't help much if the pass gets leaked WITH the archive..

 

[Ozz465]

Great to hear that this project will continue .