Re: Questions to candidates
* Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> [2004-03-02 20:31]:
> > something works as expected. You only notice when it suddenly
> > breaks. So if 95% of communication with James works well, we will
> > never hear about it. But we hear about the 5% which fails.
> Damn users ... this is always the same. ;-)
Well, I don't want to play it down. If there is a problem, it has to
be fixed, no matter if it's 1% or 5%. It's also not just users, but
developers as well. However, one disturbing trend I have seen is that
FUD is increasingly common. It seems to be "in" to rant about various
things, even if it has no factual basis. In many cases, I see very
uninformed postings. This is a real problem because people are no
longer available to distinguish between real problems and mere rants.
Due to this, there is a growing number of developers and users who
feel that Debian is falling apart, while it fact most things are
working pretty well. We have to do something against this, otherwise
more and more people will get frustrated (also see my answer to AJ's
mail, especially the end). My approach to this is to give _factual_
information (one example for this would be my posting about the status
of buildds, but there are many similar postings from me; for one, see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200402/msg00463.html).
Finally, I believe that complaints like "person X cannot communicate"
or "X sucks" or whatever are not very helpful (Andreas, I'm not
accusing you of doing so with your question; I'm talking in general,
based on what I see on -devel and other lists, and I think your
questioon is based on this as well). I try to identify exactly what
the problem is and then to tackle it.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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