On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:31:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Those marked as "doesn't work" don't work on my system, | > which is a fair indication | > that they won't work on some other systems either. | | it's a fair indication that there may be something wrong with your | system.
Pretty unlikely, all things considered... | obviously, but you've offered no reason to include any of the items | which i listed as fully usable in that category. The *reason* is that due to various developers leaving, switching herds and so on, I'm supposedly maintainer for all these packages. | Blackbox & the add-ons i use are neither pointless nor broken in any | way; Blackbox itself is being actively developed by Brian Hughes at | Trolltech, with a new version 0.70 due out in the near future. At which point the package won't get a version bump unless someone takes over as maintainer. | >> eg can you refer to any open bugs involving any of them ? | > Do a bugsearch for stuff assigned to commonbox@, | | no, you do one yourself: you're the one making extraordinary claims, | which don't seem to match anyone else's experience. *shrug* given how I get an email every time someone reports a problem with one of these packages, and then several other whiny emails from users when their bug sits there ignored because no-one's maintaining the packages in question, I think I'd know what I'm talking about... | > But then, several of the above that won't even compile | > *don't* have open bugs, showing how few people care. | | what an extraordinary statement ! you think a lack of bug reports | shows that no-one cares about a package ??? When a package won't compile with gcc3, and it gets no bug reports, yes. | if you are simply feeling overworked, | the correct approach is to say so explicitly & honestly | & ask for someone to volunteer to take over some of your tasks. This isn't the first time I've asked for additional people for commonbox. Since my previous requests were mostly unanswered, it's gotten to the stage where I'm going to have to start p.masking and removing if people don't help. Although, it seems this time's having more results than before... | i've already offered to consider maintaining the 6 packages above | myself, depending on what is required & what skills i can contribute | or learn. Do you have someone who's prepared to recruit you? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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