On 06/16/2016 07:26 AM, Drew White wrote: > > > On Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:44:00 UTC+10, jkitt wrote: > > One of the many benefits of FOSS is that users can contribute - even > if it's just writing tickets on the issue tracker. > > > Exactly, it's an open thing, but these are things that there are tickets > about for some thing. > And some things I have notified Qubes-OS of the problem and it's never > had a ticket created or been fixed. > And some things have had great response and been fixed or had a fix in > place for the next release, but not being fixed/patched in that one release. The fact that it's open does not mean that they serve everybody like the counter of a McDonald's restaurant. It means that anyone can contribute.
> Some things they blatently said they would not ever do, even if it was > something that was beneficial (in my opinion), nor were they giogn to > give the OPTION that I had recommended to them because they said it > would be too much hassle, yet it wouldn't be any great hassle to do it, > only adding in a couple of lines of code to the build, nothing strenuous > or anything, but still too much hassle for it to be done. So my > conclusion is they the couple of lines of code had to be engraned > somewhere behind XEN, which would require the XEN people to do it, not > the Qubes people, and so it was not able to be done. Same as above. You may have your respectable opinion, but that doesn't automatically cause anything to happen outside your brain. You may share that, and that may be rejected by others for any reason - be it valid or not, should you agree on that or not. There's a fine line between "anyone can contribute" and "contributes from anyone will be absolutely accepted and included", and no sane project will agree on the second. Still, since it's free and open software, you can create your patch and propose it to the project. The steering committee (yes, there must be one even in FOSS, that's not democracy and could never be) may accept your patch or not, with reasons that are valid (say, who is going to maintain your code?) or not, and there's nothing you can do about that. Yes, you can argue that your reasons were not fully understood, and try to explain them again. Or maybe they were clear from the start, and your contribution just doesn't make it. If your contribute is rejected and you really think the world will be better with that, fork your distribution. That's how a lot of the linux distributions were born. -- Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/45572279-5ba5-2990-263e-4fed4d959d59%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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