keeping spare-time-contributors happy (was: Re: bodhi: Adding "new package")

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Sep 2 08:29:47 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 09:56 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Then you speak up and say "hey, I dislike that; can you fix that please
> so it nearly as easy than before". Other spare-time-contributors agree,
> but nothing happens for months. Then you again say "I really dislike
> that" and then someone from the professional part says "make it better
> yourself; just learn foo and bar "(which for most people will be some
> days of work if they never touched foo or bar before; time that BTW will
> be lost for the stuff you like and do well)" and make yourself familiar
> with foobar; then improve it yourself". I'd feel really pissed of at
> that point,
Pretty nicely summarized, how I feel about many of the developments wrt.
Fedora since the merger ;)

Wrt. my request, I feel bodhi is lacking an essential key-feature,
without which efficient and reliable usage of bodhi is impossible.

The actual problem can be summarized in one simple sentence: 
Where/how to find "my built, but yet not released packages in bodhi"?

Ralf





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