was: Re: [Fink-devel] Re: The second Version ... fink survey. Hi,
On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 06:29 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
I do have the unstable tree enabled and update it regularly. However, I haven't given any positive feedback but before the 0.5.0 binary release when an explicit request was made on this list. Usually a package compiles flawlessly and is forgotten to be still unstable despite it is frequently in use. Others are doing the job perfectly well but are not used explicitly (like some libraries, utilities within KDE/gnome etc.).The help that we really, desperately need is for more users to be willingYES!
to enable the unstable tree, compile packages from source, and report to
the maintainers their successes and failures. That's much much more
important than finding people who are willing to fill out surveys, in my
view.
I get maybe 1 success story a week from users, despite the fact that I
maintain (to varying degrees <g>) a huge set of packages. I know that
"KDE" works, but I would like for more people to say "hey, ksirc is
broken", or "why is kolf so slow?". I know some bits of KDE don't work,
but most of the time I can only do spot checks. Starting and running
300 applications is pure madness. Therefore I've only done it once or
twice. =)
I would appreciate some kind of checklist when an unstable package is used/tested enough to send some positive feedback. In addition an automatic reminder in fink commander would be nice. I think of something like a check which marks unstable packages installed for more than N days. I have no idea if it would be possible to check if this packages was used in this time (maybe using the last access time to the libs).
Cheers,
Remi
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