[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon

Mon Nov 26 16:09:47 CET 2012

2012/11/26, Joseph Wang <joequant on gmail>:
+[...]
+> So what do you want me to do?
+
+I just discovered your problem while reading your email and its answers.
+I'm also a volunteer just like you.
+Not for Mageia but in other project I also did some work that have
+never been accepted upstream. So I do understand that this is often
+frustrating.
+When this happens sometimes I'll put my work as a patch on my web
+site, which makes me feel better and think that maybe I've not worked
+for nothing.
+Also some upstreams are happy to put packages on their own project
+page, and provide .rpm or .deb or whatever just next to the links to
+the sources. These things works fine when the software is not a
+dependency for anything else. It maybe also a usefull way to provide
+packages given that mageia is not a rolling release distro, if you are
+close enough with the upstream you can provide your .rpm to them just
+few days (or even the same day) after a new release, while with Mageia
+you have to wait next mageia version.
+If the upstream don't want that, please don't say they are anoying
+people, but just then put it on your own website. Create a basic
+webpage with keywords that search engines will find, and everthing
+will be fine. Keep in mind that this how free software works, this is
+the bazaar. OK you won't be able to fork Mageia on your own alone, but
+providing alternative things on your side is just fine.
+Anyway don't do any affective blackmail but rather try to addopt a
+constructive behavior.
+
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+