Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package & to be rude or not
"Susmita/Rajib Bandopadhyay" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com
<mailto:bkpsusmitaa%40gmail.com>> originally wrote:
I need this software desperately to be finally free from the
strangle-hold of proprietary, closed-source software developers.
But I am shocked to find this software being ported into stable
packages, while it can do nothing. As soon as it is tried it shuts
itself off.
I hope the package will be salvaged by a nearest possible date.
Yes - it WAS rude - but not because of tone, or sexism, or anything like
that - but because of utter lazyness (or, to be charitable, cluelessness).
10 seconds of googling reveals that:
- the last upstream release is .0.9.5 - dated 2/24/15 (and it's the only
version on the net)
- it seems to have practically no development activity and no users
- there are 12 open tickets in its bug tracker
- the last development activity I can find is from 5 months back
- there's no email support list that I can find
- the developer is unidentified other than that he's male and located in
Russia
- the code started out on google code and moved to Sourceforge
In short:
- this was a quick piece of prototype code, by a random hacker that is
not being supported or used
What's rude, to me, is the attitude of entitelment - expecting it to be
more than it is.
I will note that I find it just a tad curious that someone bothered to
actually package it and list themselves as a maintainer.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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