On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 13:41, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Oliver Elphick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040714 14:25]:
> > It is very discourteous to ignore people. Don't your fellow developers > > deserve some human consideration and courtesy? > > Did you ever try to speak to Daniel directly? I tried it once (on > IRC), and got immediate reply from him. I'm sorry; you misunderstand me. I have not myself had reason to seek information from Daniel or the other ftp-masters about this. I am speaking about what I have seen on the lists, where those who have been directly involved in building the amd64 port have related their experiences and their frustration at getting no response to their emails. As for IRC, it is not a form of communication that naturally occurs to my mind. In general email is far more convenient, from my point of view and is the natural and expected medium of communication in a worldwide project. Perhaps the fact that the ftp-masters are a group rather than an individual is responsible for some of the communication problems. It is natural, if a question is difficult to answer, to leave it to someone else, if no particular person has specific responsibility for answering. So the group as a whole fails, but no particular individual is really to blame. Some groups contain individuals who are happy to jump up and reply to everything; if the ftp-masters do not have such an individual, perhpas they could work out some way of ensuring that all queries get at least an acknowledgment. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." I Corinthians 1:9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
