Hello, On 2009 m. April 6 d., Monday 17:22:02 Manolete, ese artista... wrote: > Well, paraphrasing Socrates I'd say that in the "fair medium" (or whatever > it is in English) is the virtue. I think most users ask only because many > times those info omissions don't seem to do any good at all, but involve > this packaging process into an "obscure" atmosphere where no one but > packagers know what is happening and what fate has in store for us, mortal > users. If you want to know more about development process, subscribe to the respective mailing lists (at least) or visit respective irc channels from time to time. Writing reports why/how/when would be as time consuming as development / packaging itself. Basically, if you want know more, you also need make some effort. > I can understand y'all omit technical details most of users aren't The main frustration was not about technical details, but questions like "when will it be uploaded (I want exact day and hour, give me it!!)" or "why not today". If we gave it, then some journalist would write about it and finally there would more frustration about the topic "why you missed it". Endless story and counterproductive for everybody. It is much better for users to know approximate information. > interested in and wouldn't even understand, but I don't think a couple of > announcements from time to time like "hey, people, we know we said this > week it would be ready, but unfortunately we have had a lot of things to do > so you'll have to wait for a week more wouldn't do any wrong; in fact I Ana made an announcement a week ago. I think users were given quite reasonable timeframe when to expect changes. Debian is not ubuntu, we try to put quality over deadlines. What is more, just an announcement as you have written it wouldn't be sufficient in any case. You need to spend rather much time to write a proper announcement, it does not work that way. -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
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