[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Mon Oct 18 01:44:29 CEST 2010

Le vendredi 15 octobre 2010 à 22:00 -0500, Fernando Parra a écrit :
+
+I am just coming back from my weekend, so I may have missed lots of
+discussion, but there is 2 points in your mail that I really wanted to
+address.
+
+> The basic/novice user doesn't read anything, doesn't request anything 
+> to some like a bugzilla, 
+
+And so, because some users are considered too lazy, we should do the
+work for them ?
+
+I am living in a world where days are only 24h long. If people are not
+able to do their part of the work like "filling a proper bug report on
+bugzilla to get their wish done for free by a already overworked
+volunteer", the only answer I can give is 'too bad for them'. 
+
+If packagers were not already busy, yeah, I would think we should have
+more backports requests. But if there is any packager that think "I do
+not have enough work, give me more", he can send me a mail and I will
+have no problem to help him solve this issue fo too much free time. 
+
+While I agree we should lower the bar for all kind of contributions, I
+am not sure that giving more work to packagers by requesting backports
+clearly qualify as a contribution, and so as such should not be lowered
+too easily. 
+
+So before doing anything, we need to think about scaling from our side.
+
+> Please take in mind that we are trying to get a considerable number of new users. 
+
+I do not think I am ok to be counted in the "we" you use. I do not think
+I want, nor that I will even try to get a considerable number of new
+users, I want a sustainable number of users that can be properly taught
+of free software way and ecosystem, so they can be later part of the
+community as people who help us in very direct way. And that's what I
+will try to do.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+