2012/11/26, Joseph Wang <joequant on gmail>: [...] > So what do you want me to do?
I just discovered your problem while reading your email and its answers. I'm also a volunteer just like you. Not for Mageia but in other project I also did some work that have never been accepted upstream. So I do understand that this is often frustrating. When this happens sometimes I'll put my work as a patch on my web site, which makes me feel better and think that maybe I've not worked for nothing. Also some upstreams are happy to put packages on their own project page, and provide .rpm or .deb or whatever just next to the links to the sources. These things works fine when the software is not a dependency for anything else. It maybe also a usefull way to provide packages given that mageia is not a rolling release distro, if you are close enough with the upstream you can provide your .rpm to them just few days (or even the same day) after a new release, while with Mageia you have to wait next mageia version. If the upstream don't want that, please don't say they are anoying people, but just then put it on your own website. Create a basic webpage with keywords that search engines will find, and everthing will be fine. Keep in mind that this how free software works, this is the bazaar. OK you won't be able to fork Mageia on your own alone, but providing alternative things on your side is just fine. Anyway don't do any affective blackmail but rather try to addopt a constructive behavior. --
