On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 10:57 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 8:25 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's what I think is hilarious about this whole debate: People who > > want support for feature/codec/package X still have to find out how to > > do that. Where do they find out, if we don't publish it on our official > > one-click page? > > Too many pronouns I'm not following so I'm not sure exactly what part > of your logic I should be shaking my fist at in rage. I want to shake > my fist and foam and the mouth and yell at you, but I can't figure out > why. Sorry if I was unclear. My point was that trying to walk this particular legal line -- a very fine one at that -- is making the value of our possibly-soon-to-be-published verbiage practically nil. Joe wants support for turning CDs into MP3s. If we can only tell him "You can find support for things we can't carry at <URL>," how has that really helped Joe? He already has to go to some other location, presumably an unofficial forum or FAQ, in order to discover which packages he needs to "yum install" to get the support he wants. Instead, we send him to the repository, which really only has directions on how to get the repo configured, as opposed to actual help. I am not saying we should go further. I am saying that what we *are* considering is practically useless, since Joe would have gone to the forum/FAQ/<some_URL> anyway to find out what he needed to do. Advice through those channels would already include configuring the repo, so we wouldn't be cutting out a step, really, or giving Joe anything of real value. Rage away! :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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