Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Fink Needs You

[Steven Burr]

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 07:11  PM, Ben Hines wrote:

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 11:43  AM, Max Horn wrote:

Maybe we should ask the fink commander author to restrict reports only on packages that are actually *not* in stable? Or even if it is in stable, refuse if the last CVS update is more than a week ago... I am really sick of getting mails that tell me "I didn't use it much, but (gettext|dpkg|apt|...) seem to work fine here".

Yes, sorry forgot to get to that which you requested last time.

I'm not crazy about this idea. What if a user discovers a problem with a stable package and wants to let the maintainer know? Why should he prevented from using FinkCommander to do that?

Rather than providing crippled functionality, I would rather raise a dialog giving the user a brief explanation of when and how to communicate with maintainers when the e-mail command is invoked. The dialog would provide the option of turning the warning off for future e-mails.

If that's not acceptable to maintainers, and they feel the FinkCommander e-mail command is more trouble than it's worth, they should let me know and I'll remove it.

I will also enhance finkcommander to add more boilerplate text to the email, something like,

"I, [EMAIL PROTECTED], have compiled and ran your packages:

cowsay-1.0-1
xmms-2.0-1

and they seem to possess basic functionality, and not crash"

This doesn't seem all that different from "I didn't use it much, but it seems to work fine here." Any boilerplate you come up with is unlikely to be both general enough to be accurate and specific enough to be useful.

BTW, have you (the Fink developers) ever thought of putting a feedback form on your web site? You could use the form to nudge users into providing helpful feedback and to filter out the obviously useless, such as positive feedback on a stable package.

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