On Friday 09 January 2004 11:15 am, Simon Perreault wrote: > You would be in your right to request something of a developer if you were > *paying* him. Otherwise, you can ask politely, but the developer can ignore > your demand if he so wishes. Lobbying is impolite. In open source it is always the case that the developer can rejet your requests. The more successful ones learn to filter the requests properly. But the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease. > Of course, there are developers kinder than others. ;) Yes there are. To repeat the gist of the last message I wrote on this subject ot fedora-devel, I am going to implement a diffing system for the PostgreSQL RPMs that I distribute from ftp.postgresql.org. I will see how it works, once I get around to doing it. Then if the Fedora Core project wants to adapt it, that is up to them. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
