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Sorry. +</I>><i> I wish ardently that Xfce remains maintained. +</I> +I guess lots of people do. But history shown this is not enough. + +Let's suppose we keep xfce, despites being unmaintained. When people +report bugs, they will have no or few answers. They will not like and +complain. Maybe more than with a maintainer, maybe they will not care. + +When there will be bugs, no one will step to fix them. So people who try +this will either say "this DE is buggy", or "this distribution is +buggy". +Then, likely sooner or later, someone will say "the DE work fine on +AnotherDistribution", so people will think "the distribution is buggy" +and switch to AnotherDistribution. + +While the outcome look the same ( ie, people leaving because there is no +package, or leaving because it is not working ), in one case, they will +switch by thinking "the distribution is not having what I want, but the +rest was working" and will not badmouth us. In the other case, they will +think "the distribution is buggy", and complain. + +So how ending like this would help us in the long run ? + +Maybe that's just me, but each time I mentioned "I am doing package for +Mandriva" in the past 5 years, people kept explaining me that they faced +some bug dating back to mandrake 7.0 time, and that they switched +distributions and how they now live in a world filled with pink pony +giving them candy, yadayadayada. Besides being demotivating for me +( cause my time travel machine is still not working ), this was hurting +the promotion of Mandriva. + +Did someone ever heard "fedora is bad because they didn't ship Xfce at +the start". I never did, and I think everybody forgot it. I could surely +give several example on all distribution of missing packages and people +forgetting once the issue is fixed. + +So people are likely quicker to forget lack of packages than lack of +quality. + +And if we do not have the ressources to achieve quality packages, then +it is much more saner for us to choose the least damaging solution in +the long term, ie removing packages. + +There was enough complains about Mandriva shipping buggy softwares, and +if as a community, we cannot increase work done to fix this ( we tried, +we even put 2 developers together to see if they mate and produce a 3rd +one to help us ), we do not have much others choice. + +><i> For my part I participate in it as tester, +</I>><i> where from my a little bit virulent reaction. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This place is also, I think, the only place where it is possible +</I>><i> to have a dialogue with developers. +</I>><i> (except bugzilla, but bugzilla is more specific) +</I> +There is lots of place to have a dialogue, be it on irc, in real life +and so on. And if some of us ( and me the first ) do not go on forums on +a frequent basis, there is various reasons that were already explained +in the past +( <A HREF="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel/305365">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.devel/305365</A> ), +so I can only direct you to my previous answers as it is likely still +valid ( at least for me ). + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="012106.html">[Mageia-dev] Qt-based software unusable under XFCE since almost 2 days +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="012143.html">[Mageia-dev] Qt-based software unusable under XFCE since almost 2 days +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#12140">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#12140">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#12140">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#12140">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |