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

Mon Oct 18 05:25:57 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-17 19:44, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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.
+>
+
+Thanks Michael for the note. This is why I am in favour of streamlining 
+the reporting of bugs from the user side and not the dev. Devs should 
+always count on seeing bugs reported on bugzilla and nothing more. 
+However, on the user side, to keep the reporting of bug flow from 
+breaking down, I suggest a two tier format that I discussed earlier. 
+Maybe have a look at this and comment?
+
+I imagine that the Mageia devs are interested in hearing of bugs from as 
+many sources as possible regardless of user experience.
+
+Marc Pare
+
+