Custom Rom Builder Burnout...

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Originally Posted by verizonguy

I just spent the last 14 hours completely building a brand new kitchen from helmi and imcokeman's previous work just to read the last several pages of you ungrateful people b***h and moaning.

I just uploaded the kitchen and will leave it there, but you know what? For those of you that couldn't give me the couple of days I asked for to intelligently relay how the fixes were implemented, kiss my a$$.

For the rest of you, good luck. I'm done.

Sorry to see you flame out like this... ditto the colonel.

Both of you have done a lot of work that many of us are grateful for, even if we never used your ROM builds. However, this is very typical of 'the internet' - you need a thick skin to work with a bunch of folks you've never seen, while supporting a bunch more folks who really are only interested in what they want (and I don't mean that in a bad way to all you 'rom consumers')

My desire in all this has always been threefold
(1) push the knowledge envelope - it's just fun to tinker with stuff just for the heck of it - I already tinker for money, and a project I do just for fun is that much better
(2) help other people - sometimes I can figure something out first. Rare, but still nice when it happens
(3) learn from how other people crack a problem - yep, still a student at 45

I have no interest in building a ROM for other people, which is why I was so happy to see Helmi_c's kitchen come to the Apache - this way many people could build what they want, and others could possibly benefit as well if they picked up prebuilt roms.

Recently folks have gotten a little demanding on the consumer side of the prebuilt rom equation, and the cookers/tinkerers have been less effective then they could have been in working together, and sharing their results. It sucks, but it happens. Part of the rush of 3.5 is how much better it is, but on the downside there are still some problems. Likewise, the rush of getting your apps into rom is great, unless you're not up to building it yourself and you have to ask others to make it just the way you want it.

Hopefully everyone can take a little breather and come back at this fresh, and we can all work together on moving ahead with this crazy fun activity.

As always, thanks to all the folks working on the kitchen, working on OEMs, Helmi_c for creating it and giving it away, and wideawake for giving us this place and staring the whole custom ROM mess The more formal development effort looks promising, hopefully we'll all be able to join in there and get the last kinks worked out.