> Yes, you're absolutely right and most of your ideas are good, > but Arch > Linux won't change. You can have that good ideas, but nobody > will change > something -- this mail will probably ignored by many developers.
> Have look at Arch-i18n which was initialized by me: It consisted of > about 20 people whos target it was to translate pacman and > Arch Linux. > Everything was well until we needed the help of Judd Vinet. Matthias, I'm not going to comment on all your issues. But as an outsider to this situation, I'd like to just comment on one thing here that I think you're overlooking, and which may be unnecessarily causing you frustration here. I think that a good bit of the lack of response you got is not because of uncooperative people, but because the developers are overworked people who don't have as much time to dedicate to the distro as they (and you) would like. Take a look at the recent interview with the Arch developers over at OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10142. The one thing the screams out to me from that interview is that nearly every dev cites their lack of adequate free time for the distro as the major challenge they face (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10142&page=2). These guys are all volunteers who do this in their spare time, while juggling school and/or a job. This isn't like other projects - e.g., RedHat, SuSe, Debian, the Kernel, GNOME, KDE - where people are paid to work on it. So I think you need to give them a bit of a break. I'm sure it takes a tremendous amount of time just to keep up with building packages for all the latest releases of all the s/w, and so taking on other projects on top of that is very difficult. The devs are really very dedicated, selfless people for donating as much of their time as they to do the distro, and I think we're all grateful to them for that - and impressed at what they've been able to achieve in their spare time. I think that if you approach Arch with that knowledge, and adjust your expectations accordingly, you'll not be as frustrated with the developers. Just my $0.02. HTH, DR ============================================================================== This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received this message in error please delete it and notify us. If this message was misdirected, CSFB does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. CSFB retains and monitors electronic communications sent through its network. Instructions transmitted over this system are not binding on CSFB until they are confirmed by us. Message transmission is not guaranteed to be secure. ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
