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Re: A Hurd release
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: A Hurd release |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:26:43 +0000 |
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"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org> wrote,
>
> You might have a good point if the maintainers supported using
> savannah. This is simple not the case.
>
> But the stated reason that ams@kemisten.nu will not send in bug
> reports is that the maintainers insist on using this particular
> mechanism.
>
> I am not arguing whether Roland or Szmidt are right, but am pointing
> out that according to what has been said, as a project, not as an
> individual, the Hurd effort requires that bug reports involve a
> particular interface.
>
> Szmidt says that the cost of using that interface is too high for him.
> Others have said that the cost to changing it is too high for them.
>
> It may be that Szmidt is socially foolish in not discovering that the
> project does not do what he hears its people saying it does. Or it
> may be that those who are seeking help are socially foolish in not
> setting things up for a hacker who pays more attention to what is said
> than to discovering social confusions.
>
> Regardless, in so far as you are right that Roland mostly ignores
> messages from savannah, then the project as a whole has to convey to
> people like Szmidt that he need not submit bug reports the way he
> thinks he was asked. That is a necessity of a project seeking more
> hackers.
It's not like Alfred is a maintainer or has any obligations. But of
course it is unfortunate.
> --
> Robert J. Chassell
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- Re: A Hurd release, (continued)
- Re: A Hurd release, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/06
- Re: A Hurd release, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Neal H. Walfield, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release,
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: A Hurd release, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/01/11
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/11
- Re: A Hurd release, Ognyan Kulev, 2005/01/12
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/07
- Re: A Hurd release, Rian Hunter, 2005/01/08
- Re: A Hurd release, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/01/08
- Re: A Hurd release, Ayden, 2005/01/06
Re: A Hurd release, Harley D. Eades III, 2005/01/05