On 7/15/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > End result? Community and target users do see that maintainers care and > listen and try for the end user's best interest. More realistic end result: user of distro A complains to distro A maintainer, but the maintainer doesn't think the user is right, a big arguement ensues, wasting the maintainer and the user's time. Other users and maintainers chime in. Pretty soon you're 70 posts into a flamewar and no one can remember what the original complaint was about. User of distro B is so irate he flames maintainer of distro B maintainer, who leaves the project in a fit of pique. In distro C, the user and the maintainer actually agree, but user C2 and C3 vehimently oppose. Huge flamewar breaks out... etc. Alternately, according to Case A, users A, B, C, C2, and C3 talk to the upstream *developer*, avoid a mess on three distro's mailing lists, don't piss off any maintainers, and maybe just maybe get their pet feature implemented. I can't understand how complaining to my coworkers about my taxes hoping they'll write my MP is better than me writing my MP myself and encouraging them to all do the same. "Case B", as it were, makes absolutely NO SENSE. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
