keeping spare-time-contributors happy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 03:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > You know one thing I really dislike? I dislike it when people keep 
> > dodging the bullet in a discussion. What both Ralf and I are trying to 
> > make clear is that the new procedures cause lots of annoying extra 
> > little steps, we are not trying to rewind the clock to the pre merge 
> > release model.
Right, I want to be able to use the infrastructure I am supposed to use,
in efficient ways. ATM, this simply isn't possible.

> That has not been clear to me so far. It appeared for a while that there 
> was suggestions being made that pre-merge model worked fine 
Nope. While I certainly think the pre-merge model worked fine, I am not
proposing to revert the clock.

Nevertheless, I think the current work-flow/process model suffers from
flaws and it to be over-engineered, but I am not complaining about it,
because it doesn't interest me. It's THEM who want it. As long as I am
not _forced_ to use it, I am fine with it.

> and neither 
> the processes nor tools have offered any improvements. 
Well, IMO, to most contributors/maintainers, they offer very little
improvements. The tools offer eye-candy, but that's essentially all.

Ralf