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@xxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 > Director of Information Technology > Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute > 1 PARI Drive > Rosman, NC 28772 > (828)862-5554 > www.pari.edu > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
