On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:58:14PM +1000, Anthony Towns woke up, and decided to spew forth: > > You might consider something like "ssh auric last | grep ^ajt | less" > before leaping to such conclusions. > > Cheers, > aj Actually I think the point was that folks outside of the development cycle not knowing what's going on come up with some weird conclusions about what's happening. Not that we're responsible for them thnking that, just that they do. What I don;t see is why there is so much hoopla against notifying our userbase of what's taking place. Look folks, it's simple. WE use the lists and many of the userbase also use the lists, but not all of them do. We have a large base to deal with. Why is everyone fighting so damn hard NOT to put out a simple message like what I proposed (not that we have to use MINE, ANY message along those lines should suffice) to the userbase? It's really coming across like "Why should we care what the userbase thinks? We're too busy fixing things so that the release DOES come out to care what the folks at home think. Leave me alone and let me get this done!". OK, I really don't see that being a problem that we want to fix this all up and gete it out the door. That's what we're SUPPOSED to do, but dang guys, let ONE of us at least put something out so we CAN get people off your backs! This isn't that difficult. It's like watching a congressional session on CNN! Debates over the worthiness of doing such a thing, debates on the worthiness of deciding the worthiness of doing such a thing, opinions on why NOT to do such a thing, opinions on why TO do such a thing, debates over what the exact meanings are implied by some comments and not others ect ect. Let's just do the damn thing and get it over with! Add a link on the main page in a <P> <H2> Information regarding distribution release delays</H2> For more information on release processes and possible reasons for delays in distribution release, click <A HREF="reasons.html">here.</A> </P> The forward them to an anchor in the FAQ that describes that. Like we were talking about earlier. Make the notation generic enough to cover any release and bam, the issue is done. -- David D.W. Downey <david-downey@codecastle.com> Upstream - libpam-pgsql.codecastle.com Debian - Woody: 0.5.2-3 Sid: 0.5.2-5 State - bugs.debian.org/libpam-pgsql "The price of Free Software is Eternal Literacy." "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees." Deloris Clayborn
Attachment:
pgp0YcdiAO8bt.pgp
Description: PGP signature