On 25 October 2010 02:19, Wayne Sallee <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Scherer wrote on 10/23/2010 08:52 PM: >> >> Le dimanche 24 octobre 2010 à 02:09 +0200, Tux99 a écrit : >> >>> >>> Come on... the effort of adding a decent description is minimal for a >>> packager, the effort for a normal user of making a patch is much >>> higher, this is not a very friendly answer towards the users... >>> >> >> I think I demonstrated in the past that constant friendliness toward >> users is not one of my distinctive characteristics. >> >> The patch arguent is invalid, because people can also send mail, like >> "here is a better description of package $FOO because I didn't >> understood the current one and I wanted to help". >> >> So while sending a email and finding the packager email can be hard for >> some people, I doubt that sending a email is hard for everybody. >> >> If writing a decent description is easy and almost effortless, and if >> sending a email is easy, then what is difficult into doing both ? > > I agree that it is only logical to contribute by e-mailing the packager > about an improvement need in the package, but some packagers don't want you > e-mailing them about their package. > > As a community distro, we want to try to make it comfortable and easy for > everyone to get involved. > > Knowing that many packagers are not going to want you e-mailing them about > their package, reduces the number of people that will take the time to > e-mail them with such contribution. Of course what makes it easier for one, > makes it harder for another, so there needs to be balance there. Sometimes > our expectations are expecting too much from the other who is working a lot > of thankless hours to keep the distro going. > > It's all about balance and efficiency, and making it easy for people to > start contributing, and realizing that some jobs are more time consuming > than we might think. > > Developing systems and protocols help keep things running efficient, and > moving forward. > > Wayne Sallee > [email protected] >
Yes, using bugzilla is usually better; an advantage of filing a bug report over sending a personal email is that the bug gets more exposure and any packager who has a bit of free time and can fix it (especially if you're talking about just changing the package description) will do so; i.e. the whole process becomes faster by distributing the workload (especially not-too-invasive package changes). -- Ahmad Samir
