Gee, thanks community.

Judging by the number of people who have been talking excitedly about Copland, and those who have been advertising my project and imploring people to get involved, I've had remarkably little involvement from the community.

Not only have I not received a single line of code, it seems that nobody has even tried the technology that I've developed for the distribution and placed on the website. Today when testing HfsBrowser, I found one of those simple "one missing character" errors. Blind Freddie with an HFS+ hard disk and a root terminal could have noticed it (my main development machine is x86 and I didn't have an HFS+ partition available to test it on).

No, it's not an excuse that I didn't actually test the HFS+ functionality on my target machine. I should have. But on the same token, it's ridiculous for some of those people to ask about creating artwork for the distro and then not help in other more useful ways. I mean, why didn't anyone else test this program? It's very useful on PPC-based systems, and actually even more useful on x86 systems where HFS formatted CDs and stuff are going to be used.

I'm fixing this bug (and one other that I found; more permissions stuff), and then releasing the thing. If I don't get anyone contributing utilities or helping bugfix after Community Preview, then I simply won't bother creating a proper release. I'm serious. From the beginning, I said that I wouldn't be able to single-handedly develop the distribution that PowerPC users deserve, and single-handedly I haven't yet managed to create a starting point.

I'm sorry if I sound angry; I'm mostly angry at myself and I had a bad day at work, but I am also puzzled about why nobody is even thinking of running my code until it's packaged neatly on a CD.