Update patches versus full update RPM.

[Brian Bouchard]

We're all grown adults here. No flame wars please. All you're doing is
wasting other's time and mine as well. Please try to stay on topic.

Brian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Update patches versus full update RPM.


> On Friday 09 January 2004 10:28 am, Simon Perreault wrote:
> > On January 9, 2004 10:20, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > So, lobby the developers
> > > if you are interested in seeing patch RPMs instead of full updates
> > > developed and deployed.  The best place to pester developers is on the
> > > fedora-devel list.
>
> > You're not going to gain anything by pestering the developers. In fact,
> > you're doing quite the opposite: now everyone will snob your idea. Good
for
> > you.
>
> Good grief.  Is the community really this petty?  Are endusers not allowed
to
> lobby developers for features that users would find useful?  Should
> developers be out of reach of user concerns?
>
> I have enough experience in the PostgreSQL community to see that user
> comments, funding proposals, and even pestering (when it's not carried too
> far) are excellent tools for the userbase to communicate their needs,
> particularly when the feature might be somewhat painful for the developer.
>
> As for me, well, if I decide the feature is worth it for me, I can write
the
> code for both ends.  I have no current personal motivation to do it, and
I'm
> not the developer of the programs in question, and (most importantly) it
> isn't in my department's budget (so if I did it it would be on my already
> stretched personal time). If it were of enough interest for us, and passed
> the budget process, I would have no problem paying for the feature to be
> added.  Even if I had it written and tested it would still have to go
through
> the developer, and through all the comments I already have gotten.
>
> For what it's worth, SuSE is doing this already in production.
> -- 
> Lamar Owen
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