On Sunday 13 November 2005 09:15, jdd wrote: > my question was more "why are there so little people..." > (contributors on this list, authors of wiki pages...) > > My experience is: > > some people have spare time. Having gotten help from suse or > liking suse they come and lurk www.opensuse.org
I had spare time, and was using it to support a program that was supposed to eventually be included in 9.3. All went well. The maintainer sent packages and I tested. Not on 9.3, but 9.2 at the time as I wasn't part of the beta team. After several trials, it was found that it worked quite well on 9.2, and I assumed it would in 9.3. Went right out, purchased 9.3, and installed as I've done since the 6.4 days. But now I had a little pride that I actually had contributed something. Tried the program in question, and lo and behold it didn't work. Hmmmm. Wrote the maintainer, explaining my problem, and furnished every piece of info he asked for and then some. It's still sitting on my ftp server. Since that time, it's never been fixed, and appears to have died. As I am not a programmer, I don't know where to start looking. Wish I was. So all the time I spent went for nothing. Kind of depressing. I check every once in a while in hopes of an update, but after almost a year, nothing has happened. > if they don't find something to do, may be simple, they will > go elsewhere. I doubt I'll go elsewhere, as I am very comfortable with SUSE. I'm just not going to make many more purchases unless it's something I really need or want. Mike http://www.mikenjane.net/?page_id=18 -- Powered by SuSE 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11 KDE 3.4.0 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 3:36pm up 14 days 0:36, 4 users, load average: 2.33, 2.40, 2.43 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
