[Mageia-dev] Release cycles proposals, and discussion

Mon Jun 13 20:12:21 CEST 2011

2011/6/13 Lee Forest <lee8oi at gmail.com>:
+> I like the idea of releasing when ready. Its done when the team thinks its
+> ready and not because its being demanded by end users.
+
+Yes. in a world without users this is the best solution. But there are
+users. Giving them a "when it's ready" as release date opens doors for
+all kinds of questions about this "it's ready", like, "how can you say
+it's ready when package foo is not included in it's newest version?"
+
+> As for being in the news more, we dont have to put out a release just to be
+> able blog about whats going on in the mageia community and remind everyone
+> why mageia is special. But this must be the case because theres rarely any
+> new news posted in mageia blog unless a release is coming out.
+
+Oh, you haven't read the blog for some time? The blog is about what we
+do, there was a release coming up on June 1st, so during pre-release
+time the blog was mainly about the release. But there have been a lot
+of other articles, if you miss a certain subject, tell us what you
+want to read about.
+
+> Thats getting
+> about as lame as these messages in this mailing list telling people they
+> sent their message to the mailing list wrong.
+
+Yes, it is a PITA that such messages seem to be needed again and again
+to keep the flow of mails readable in a thread.
+
+> At first I was excited about using mageia, and being a part of the
+> community. Now im dissappointed because I see how you treat people that are
+> not on the team. Basically like their opinions
+> (that you ask for) dont matter, and you are only concerned with the proper
+> submission of mailing lists messages. Get someone on the blogs and start
+> talking to the rest of the community the way they deserve. I agree with the
+> gentleman leaving the mailing list. This isn't worth sticking around for.
+> Time to remember why you started mageia in the first place.
+
+A community has almost as many different ideas and answers as the
+number of people involved. So it may be that one who gives his opinion
+gets replies with different opinions - this is called "discussions".
+
+The side question here was why Ron did not write his opinion in the
+thread where the rest of the discussion already took place. I would
+think this is a reasonable request to make it easier for those who
+will have the task of gathering all the opinions - to do just what you
+say we are neglecting. The remark about proper posting style was just
+a remark to keep the flow of discussion easy to follow, also a
+reasonable request.
+
+In an ideal world the person in question would have followed the
+remarks and kept up advocating his opinion where all others are
+discussing the matter. But if somebody prefers to put such reasonable
+requests in front instead, so be it.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+