Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> Frankly speaking, I would very much prefer seeing people working on
>> current issues of the installer (I mean, not only during 3 months
>> before the release) rather than adding more bells, whistles and shiny
>> new features. It would be great if existing features were kept working
>> during the entire release process.
>
> They'll do that or not, and we probably cannot decide for them what to
> spend their time with.
>
>> This is of course not targeted at you who reported this bug (don't
>> shoot the messenger) but more at all these people who have great
>> ideas on debian-user but never show up in development teams.
>
> Did you show up on a development team to work on the issues you would
> like to see the developers working on?
>
> How do you show up on such a team? Did you ever try to provide a Debian
> package? I'd have liked to and only found it being ridiculously
> difficult, so I gave up on it. If you want to try, I probably still
> have the sources and you can have them --- they'd need fixing though,
> which I didn't because I don't need it anymore. I had it uploaded to
> freshmeat or sourceforge, and last time I checked, they seemed to have
> removed it. Well, not my loss ...
You seem to have misunderstood that Christian's one of d-i's
maintainers (he also seems to be a big fan of fonts!):
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=bubulle&comaint=yes
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