@BSzili: Good, as it was intended that way :D But seriously, although i fully understand the annoyance of such things i'm always amazed how many people seems bothered about a single tiny website (out of a zillion others out there) not working correctly. @terminills, On hindside, yes you are correct. do _NOT_ clear your cookies if you are able to login and be able post correctly. @paolone2: thanks for the additional (technical) information. I've already talked here and there so am aware (a little). But how to explain such technical matter to the outside as such things alway seem to render the remark: "so then simply fix it" (and i have no idea how technically difficult such thing would be). PS: did you had to make another account because you lost/forgot your old info ? @all: just hang in there. eventually things will work as intended again. Maybe now is a good time to make some time for your other hobbies like sunbathing, collecting stamps or hunt down some bugs in AROS :D And if you can't live without, we're all at your service in case you wanna drop your AROS related questions over here.

I encounter this problem too. I cannot post on aros-exec.org. It always send message "your session has expired ....".

[quote][url=http://arosworld.org/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=87&pid=480#post_480][b]serk118uk wrote:[/b][/url] Last person to post at ae was terminills. I have cleared the cookies but still same..[/quote] Do not clear your cookies if it's currently working for you. The only machine I can post from has a 3 month old cookie. :\

That sounded really dirty! :D

Well, at least some info. The powers that be are aware of the issues and are trying to wave their magic wand. So, let's give them a few days to play with their magic stick :D

Ah yes, i saw you 'floating by' :D Thanks for having tried and reporting back. That way people who experience the same issue wouldn't have to try themselves (and i saw many trying already). Although completely speculating on my part, be aware that the ip-ban message we saw earlier this week, could mean admin just opened thing up so we can at least view things again, but that things are still being worked upon. For all i know, only certain people are allowed to post atm (testing) and/or the user-settings have to be (re)set. Since no announcement was made in advance, that could indicate unusual/unexpected maintenance (hence my earlier expressed fear). If anyone has more info, then please feel free to enlighten the troubled minds ;)

Last person to post at ae was terminills. I have cleared the cookies but still same..

@serk The issue as reported by you, seems to be confirmed on the developers ML. Someone responded with having experienced something similar in the past, which could be 'solved' by clearing cookies. Alas, i can clear all i want but unfortunately, no joy for me as i am still completely unable to log in :( It seems we have to have some patience. Although, my fear is something more seriously (wrong) is happening atm. Only time can tell. @all For the ones not being able to live without these kinda forums, please feel free to discuss things on this board. we don't bite (so hard) :P Alternatively you could also try OlafS3's board [url=http://www.amigacoding.de/]here[/url].

fwiw: i was already having problems (the last couple of days) logging in, but am now unable to. Everything seems accepted, but the board simply don't display the logged in page (and also does not tell that something went wrong). Curious matters :| Thanks for reporting Serk :thumbsup: as you certainly would not be the only one (perhaps also explaining the lack of posts the last 2/3 days).

Something must gone wrong, I can not reply to any of post at aros-exec since yesterday...

fwiw: for those trying to reach aros-exec and get a ip-ban message... no, there is nothing wrong with your specific ip-address, it seems everyone is experiencing the same. Unfortunately i don't have any further info atm. Simply hold on tight, and try again in a couple of hours/days.. patience is virtue :)

Same for me amigamia. Site was down whole of yesterday and started working again for me today. sometimes indeed pretty slow or unable to login. Yesterday arosworld was out for me for a small period of time as well. (and right now i am having problems posting this message: unable to establish connection to sql... blah). Computer-technology: a small wonder in itself (at least when it works) :D

I have been unable to browse to aros-exec.org since yesterday. It either times out or is slow as molasses.

Really nice! Thank you sharing

Wow that was quick indeed. Very good points and well addressed by Andre'. I do however have a suggestion but it is more for other sites than P2P. Bounties should have more visibility and what I mean by that, they should be advertised clearly on web sites instead of just a link to p2p. I am going to see if I can add a Project infusion to this site and post the bounties in a more explicit way. I'll see how it goes and maybe other AROS sites can follow. Just some help in marketing the bounties.

Wow that was quick, here is the reply I received from P2P. Hello, thank you for your email. You raise three basic issues and I will try to address all of them. 1. It should be possible to split donations among multiple developers. => This is already possible and has happened multiple times. Most recently, the Port AROS to ASUS EeePC donations were split between Neil and Michal, for instance. They figured out the percentages among themselves which is the best approach since non-developers are unlikely to add anything productive to these type of discussions. 2. ABIv1 vs. ABIv0 => This is purely a bounty description issue. If you want ABIv0 to be supported, ensure that it is in the description and only donate to those projects that have it in there. There have been bounty projects that specifically referenced ABIv0 or ABIv1 or both before. 3. Splitting up large bounties to more manageable pieces. => Once again, this has already happened. For very large efforts, multiple related bounty projects have been created (usually with the wording "phase 1", "phase 2", etc.). The two completed Kickstart replacement bounties are a good example. Unfortunately, many projects are simply not very suitable for a modular milestone approach. Even if somebody writes 95% of the code to add certain new functionality, it might actually take another developer more time to carefully review, clean up, and ultimately fix this code so it works properly and reliably. Please note that it is impossible to know this before-hand or without a thorough investigation, which takes time and effort. Power2People relies on the AROS community to test and determine if all conditions of a bounty project have been. Thankfully, there are quite a few users around who are willing to test software. However, with many software projects, there is simply no working binary that end users could test until the project is almost finished. In these cases, reviewing whether a milestone was met or not would be up to other developers who are not as frequently found as end users and who might in many cases provide far more value to AROS by focusing on actual development as opposed to review other people's code. Another issue is that Power2People is far more comfortable paying out funds after a large group of people has tested piece of software compared to paying out money based on the opinion of a single developer willing to review source code. I hope this is helpful to you. I understand that you may have preferred different answers but some things are just naturally complicated and difficult. Best regards, Andr? Siegel

Hello amigamia, Thanks for the positive response. I didn't think to contact P2P, since I am only asking questions and do not have any solutions. However, you have a good idea. After all, P2P has been crowd-funding longer than most kickstarters. It would be interesting to get their input and suggestions. So I will shoot them a link to this thread in hope of a reply. My guess is that P2P would be ok with milestones depending on how the bounty is written. Another problem with AROS bounties is that the developers work with ABIv1 and the rest of us use a distro based on ABIv0. So the devs consider a bounty complete when it works on their ABIv1 development systems, yet we cannot use their work until it gets back-ported to ABIv0, frustrating all parties. Edit: Yet another problem with bounties is actually writing them. People are always proposing bounties and willing to contribute. But when people discuss which items should be included, or how to word the bounty, the whole thing usually falls apart. Too bad there is no standard fill-in-the-blanks bounty format ;)

Hey cavemann, I have to agree with you 100% but have you tried to contact Bill Buck from Power2People? I believe that's where all the bounties are managed. [url]http://www.power2people.org/contact[/url]

It has been a long time since I donated to an AROS bounty, mostly imo, the economy has not been that good. But also I think there may be some basic problems with our bounty system. Let's say we want someone to assemble a jigsaw puzzle. After awhile someone takes the bounty, but soon realizes he doesn't have enough time to complete it. Since he won't get paid for completing half, he puts the pieces back in the box and walks away. In other words, perhaps a bounty should have milestones, after a project reaches a certain agreed upon point, the developer might be eligible for a part of the bounty, so that work done is not lost. (Assuming another developer would want to build on the first devs work.) But also, most modern projects are really too large for one developer. There should be a way to split the bounty so that if Huey does 50% of the puzzle, Louie does 30%, and Dewie does 20%, they could all be compensated fairly. But of course, Dewie would say that his pieces were all one color and the hardest section, so he should get more. I don't have any answers, but these issues should be looked at, if we really expect some of the more complex bounties to be completed.

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