I love when people say "I've been using arch for a week and it's cool, but can you change *this*, *this*, and *this*?"
Even better is when people say "let's do this like FreeBSD, and this like FreeBSD, and this too" - why not use FreeBSD? The fact of the matter is that everyone who's been using arch for over a few months is using it because they're happy with it... Suggesting changes like this, which frankly won't make one bit of difference (hey, bash is now in the [base] repo instead of [current] - woohoo) is counterproductive On 7/30/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:37:47PM +0100, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > > "How I want Arch Linux to become, IMHO" - very humble! Put your flamesuit > > on, > > mate! Best of luck! > > > As someone who started using Arch back when it was unknown, I do think > it's going through growing pains. > > > It is unwieldy right now. The FreeBSD port maintainer system is one > that basically works. You first write the maintainer, if you don't get > an answer after awhile you send in a PR using a template they've created > and then, nine times out of ten, it gets done. > > (A good 7-8 times out of ten, a note to the port's maintainer gets the > problem fixed. So, you're only sending a PR 2-3 times out of ten, then > out of that ten....oh, never mind, I digress.) > > The contributor line doesn't hurt, but more important is the maintainer > line. Now, if the maintainer disappears, it'd be nice if there were > something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] where one could send an email saying, > I've written the maintainer but had no response, blah blah. > > > Anyway, some of the ideas were good, IMHO, and should be considered. > What is practical and what isn't is obviously a different story, > especially in what is still a labor of love. > > > - -- > > Scott Robbins > > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Cordelia: I do what I want to do. And I wear what I want to wear. > And you know what, I'll date whoever the hell I want to date... > no matter how lame he is. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFC65af+lTVdes0Z9YRAsdlAJ0TPXRPJufxKTbrfazXP/riyqIiCACeOXp5 > JGIyDbp/dFwnbgpe82x9Dv0= > =ddO0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
