[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Mon Oct 25 02:19:19 CEST 2010

Michael Scherer wrote on 10/23/2010 08:52 PM:
+> Le dimanche 24 octobre 2010 Ã  02:09 +0200, Tux99 a Ã©crit :
+>    
+>>
+>> Come on... the effort of adding a decent description is minimal for a
+>> packager, the effort for a normal user of making a patch is much
+>> higher, this is not a very friendly answer towards the users...
+>>      
+> I think I demonstrated in the past that constant friendliness toward
+> users is not one of my distinctive characteristics.
+>
+> The patch arguent is invalid, because people can also send mail, like
+> "here is a better description of package $FOO because I didn't
+> understood the current one and I wanted to help".
+>
+> So while sending a email and finding the packager email can be hard for
+> some people, I doubt that sending a email is hard for everybody.
+>
+> If writing a decent description is easy and almost effortless, and if
+> sending a email is easy, then what is difficult into doing both ?
+I agree that it is only logical to contribute by e-mailing the packager 
+about an improvement need in the package, but some packagers don't want 
+you e-mailing them about their package.
+
+As a community distro, we want to try to make it comfortable and easy 
+for everyone to get involved.
+
+Knowing that many packagers are not going to want you e-mailing them 
+about their package, reduces the number of people that will take the 
+time to e-mail them with such contribution. Of course what makes it 
+easier for one, makes it harder for another, so there needs to be 
+balance there. Sometimes our expectations are expecting too much from 
+the other who is working a lot of thankless hours to keep the distro going.
+
+It's all about balance and efficiency, and making it easy for people to 
+start contributing, and realizing that some jobs are more time consuming 
+than we might think.
+
+Developing systems and protocols help keep things running efficient, and 
+moving forward.
+
+Wayne Sallee
+Wayne at WayneSallee.com
+