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

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 14:38:37 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:29:47AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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"?

$ koji list-tagged --latest dist-fc7-updates-candidate | grep $USERNAME




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