I've had some packages in the tracker since Thanksgiving (that's November for you non-Americans). I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could take the time to pop them into cvs.I have been a bit puzzled over where the package tracker fits in the big scheme of things. There are obviously a lot of resources devoted to improving the fink program itself, when from the average users point of view it seems to work very nicely already. Sure, anything can be improved, but I frankly wouldn't be at all bothered if fink was only updated as required for future OS releases.
In particular, AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMenu are two awesome programs that are much better on a Mac than xMAME, since they use SDL and OpenGL. If you use MAME (multi-arcade machine emulator) at all, you really should try AdvanceMAME and its front-end, AdvanceMenu.
I also have had a newer version of Nightfall (an astronomy app) in there for a long time and I put AdvanceScan in today (a small app to validate MAME Roms).
Other people have had things in there for well over a month as well.
Instant Karma to whomever does this. Thanks.
James
I think the average user would hope for a continual stream of new packages, which means you need people to keep feeding the package tracker with new submissions. However, there doesn't seem to be very many resources available to keep the package tracker moving. It can take so long to get a response to a submission that I suspect many submitters would get frustrated and decide that he was wasting his time trying to help out.
I realize that this is a volunteer project, and people will work on what interests them. So, how do we make it more interesting for people to keep the package tracker moving?
Kevin Horton happy fink user slightly frustrated package creator
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