Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
The maintainers for beagle should be taken out and kneecapped,
or beat about the head with a police baton.
Every day
I'm starting to get tired of the hating on Beagle's devs.
Excuse me...has anyone really expressed HATRED towards
the Beagle dev...
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Uh...Aaron, YES! :-)
Yes. You are saying they should be violently beaten every day.
Or have we just been noting that the software suffers
from a VERY SERIOUS DEFICIENCY -- see "Constructive Criticism"
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Constructive? All I see is tearing it down.
Constructive would be looking at the code, making improvements and
patches and sending them into the developer(s). What have you done that
is not criticism? Have you constructed any code or have you suggested any
improvements to any specific lines? What algorithms have you suggested they
use? I don't mean general comments on behavior -- I mean specific suggestions
that would *help* a developer -- that does not include comparisons to any
closed-source product since the source isn't available.
I keep seeing this topic coming up and wonder why it is still being
discussed? Have you filed a bug report? If so, what more do you expect at
this point? Have you tried making it from source? Have you figured out
where and why it slows down? What routine, function or line of code?
Have you created a test case? Is it repeatable?
"hating on" should be banished from the English language,
because it is so widely abused by people who can't handle
the fact that not everything or everybody is worthy of
pure, unqualified praise now and forever.
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Ask any software project owners if I'm *ever* guilty of
unqualified praise! I complain more than *most*, but I submit specific
bugs with test cases as well. If necessary, and the developer appears
'swamped' and if it is important enough to me, I try making the product
from the source RPMS and see if I can find out what is causing my
problem.
But before I start ragging on developers to "fix" something,
I first ask if others have seen it. If it is not a universal experience,
I start looking at 'why'. How do you know it isn't specific to certain
pieces of hardware? As one example of a "bug-in-progress" that I
haven't reported to anyone outside myself is "rotten performance
copying a file from a WinXP box to an x86_64-linux box. I get
an average speed of 771K/s -- over a 1Gigabit ethernet. I'm using
"scp".
Should I complain to the author of "scp" that my performance
sucks?
I could, but I'd look pretty stupid. I bit of investigation
on my own shows: WinXP->ia32-linux, average 10MB/s, and ia32->x86_64
(the same target that was slow from WinXP) averages 12.9MB/s. So who
do I complain to? Do I rag on the author of "scp" on the "opensuse"
mailing list? Who do I scream at -- because 771K/s is obviously
*BAD*...
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