[Mageia-dev] Mageia-dev Digest, Vol 27, Issue 85

Mon Nov 26 16:21:34 CET 2012

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 22:49 +0800, Joseph Wang wrote:
+
+> Let me tell you about my day. 
+
+[...]
+
+Most of us have jobs. Almost everyone here is a volunteer. But you are
+volunteering to be part of a team, and that involves fitting in with the
+team's larger goals.
+
+A set of astronomy-related packages would be fabulous.
+
+One way forward might be to set up your own repository so others can
+test your packages.
+
+> You can keep cinnamon out of the distribution, but that's up to you.....
+I don't think anyone is saying, "we want to prevent people from
+using..." but rather, "if it goes in the core distribution it's an extra
+thing to support, and needs careful packaging in order to avoid users
+ending up with a broken mix of gnome and cinnamon, as otherwise even in
+contrib it could make the core distribution break for many people."
+
+So this means it needs to be tested.
+
+> Also, in case someone wants to have a discussion rather than *ordering* me
+> to do something....
+I don't think you're being ordered, although sometimes, because English
+is a second or third language for some people here, tone of voice
+doesn't carry very well in email.
+
+And yes, communication, whether by email or IRC, is a big part of
+collaborating.
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
+Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
+Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
+
+