On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:28 PM, J David Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> From my reading of this list, people also want to find existing > packages which will fill the requirements with no changes or only > minimal changes, given that it is often easier to modify a program > than to write a new one from scratch. yes. i'm aware of that. it's why, whenever i encounter someone who's written a piece of software that i believe does between 1% and 100% of the job, i'm making this list aware of that software's existence. there's often complete silence and zero reaction - for which there could be several reasons. one of them is quite likely to be that the requirements are just... hellishly complex. you can tell that from the list: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserRequirements/BrainStorm so, even if someone says "software package X will help get you N% towards fulfilling requirement M", what i _don't_ understand is not even a "thank you" or a "great - put it on the wiki, here's a link where the stuff you've sent best fits". ok, i can understand the lack of the words "thank you" or "great" - they're not essential. l. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
