Re: [desktop] why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

[Luke Seubert <ls.maillist@verizon.net>]

On 10/24/2002 1:27 PM, Joanne Hunter at jrhunter@menagerie.tf wrote:

> The following text was discovered Thursday 24 October 2002 in a note
> attributed to one "Jim Penny <jpenny@debian.org>":
> 
>> How will politicking and lobbying be handled?  Most importantly, how
>> will upstream "also-rans" react?
> 
If Debian politely presents to the upstream author a list of solid technical
reasons why such-and-so software package was rejected, hopefully, that
upstream author will go back and improve the program and make it worthy of
serious reconsideration.  If upstream simply pouts and rages, well, that's
too bad.

Cheers,
Luke Seubert