On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12 May 2010 21:58, João Neto <joao.gsneto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The system package manager for Fedora to be smarter ... > > This is a general point I'm making, not just about your email in particular. > > There appears to be a trend on this list where a random user just > posts an inflammatory email with "ACME SOFTWARE IS RUBBISH". Now, if > the maintainer of that software is scanning the email list, bear in > mind he (or she) has likely spent a significant amount of time and > energy getting the software into the state you see it now. They > probably spend evenings and weekend closing duplicate bugs and fixing > trivial typos that people notice. If you title an email with such > rubbish then the maintainer is simply going to ignore it or spam it. > I'll explain why: Well said! -- mike c -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
