'Twas brillig, and Joseph Wang at 26/11/12 14:07 did gyre and gimble: > If Mageia won't accept the work that I just did packaging cinnamon, then > bye, bye Mageia.
It's a shame that you feel the need to write such an email after an incredibly minimal discussion on the topic. It's basically an ultimatum stating: let X into the repositories or I'm going. You've clearly spent time on Cinnamon but at no point did I see you post any emails regarding these plans here. Part of contributing (and we certainly need contributors) is collaboration. Communicating with others, even when they work on stuff that you don't personally use (or even like!), is an essential part of that process. Had you done this earlier then the current decisions regarding cinnamon would have happened much sooner. Also if you don't really want to "get involved in the politics" then I'm not sure what to say. Everyone has to be involved to some degree to help steer things in the right direction that works for as many people as possible. Without being involved you won't be able to represent the projects you care about. We need people to take an active interest, but if you're just interested in packaging stuff in a small bubble, separate from everything else, then I'm not sure it would work out that well anyway. I hope you reconsider, but you *will* have to get more involved if you want to do that. It's an essential part of the community. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
