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Of course what makes it easier for one, +</I>><i> makes it harder for another, so there needs to be balance there. Sometimes +</I>><i> our expectations are expecting too much from the other who is working a lot +</I>><i> of thankless hours to keep the distro going. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's all about balance and efficiency, and making it easy for people to +</I>><i> start contributing, and realizing that some jobs are more time consuming +</I>><i> than we might think. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Developing systems and protocols help keep things running efficient, and +</I>><i> moving forward. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Wayne Sallee +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">Wayne at WayneSallee.com</A> +</I>><i> +</I> +Yes, using bugzilla is usually better; an advantage of filing a bug +report over sending a personal email is that the bug gets more +exposure and any packager who has a bit of free time and can fix it +(especially if you're talking about just changing the package +description) will do so; i.e. the whole process becomes faster by +distributing the workload (especially not-too-invasive package +changes). + +-- +Ahmad Samir +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002633.html">[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002629.html">[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2628">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2628">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2628">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2628">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |