Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: >> Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: >>>>... >>> you are strongly against listening to our users? >>> an odd sort of attitude. >> >> You're distorting things. Asking for an user base pool is always part of >> your strategy of last defense: playing the advocate of the nebulous user >> base. > > They become less "nebulous" if we actually ask them about their needs. > > Based on prior experience dealing with CSW user complaints, I know > that some users will be unhappy if we needlessly clone sun packages. > Ideally, you might accept my experience on this. > But, presuming you wont, and you doubt that users would be unhappy, we > should settle the issue by asking them. > > If on the other hand, you dont CARE if some users are unhappy, then > that's a whole other problem.
This reminds me of market-droid arguments. In the end, however, the "user" will have a non functional cups. >> If an user has a strong opinion about our maintainceship the best >> he has to do is to propose patches and/or to become a maintainer. Of >> course, there is the users mailing list, the bug-tracking system that I >> read and if the request is reasonable an action follows. > > Making a large policy principle change, not bothering to check if it > makes users unhappy, and then reverting it down the road when users > bother to complain, is a sign of a user-hostile development process. > Not to mention an inefficient/chaotic process. > That's not a good thing for opencsw, in my opinion. > > This is not a maintainer-internal-only issue. This is a directly > user-facing issue, both in the specific slp case, but also in the much > larger general policy case. Personally I don't get this "user-facing" issue. Anyway, the question for which I answered initially was if I agree with an OpenSLP package. And it's still affirmative. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
