On 09/02/06 at 18:38 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > On Thursday 09 February 2006 14:06, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 09/02/06 at 12:57 +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > > These thoughts lead directly to the questions "What are we MOTUs, why do > > > we work in the MOTU Team, where did we come from, and where do we go > > > tomorrow". Strange questions, but necessary, I think. > > > > Add: What can be expected from a MOTU regarding quality, dedication, etc. > > This is similar to the questions about contribution to Debian. And > > there's really no easy answer. > > You can't expect anything from a volunteer. > Actually it's his name which qualifies his work which he did already. > Or he is a starter in this OSS business and he has to work hard, he will > because he wants. > But you can't expect anything. And no one should.
<sarcasm>Oh, thank you for enlightning me ! I have been in the FS world for about 7 years now, and never realized that.</sarcasm> You might find it interesting to read : Michlmayr, M. (2004). Managing Volunteer Activity in Free Software Projects. In: Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Freenix Track. http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-mia.pdf Other papers from Martin Michlmayr on related topics are available on http://www.cyrius.com/ > > > > If there is something which is terrible broken with the infrastructure, > > > > we should inform via LP the infrastructure people and ask them to fix > > > > it. > > > > There's a big difference between "something terribly broken" and > > "something which quite works but could really be improved". > > Yes, this is named "Wishlist Bug" and "Discuss it on #launchpad and/or > elmo/keybuk/etc." The general policy regarding wishlist bug is that they are of lower priority than other bugs (that's why they are named wishlist bugs after all). What if : - the bug is really wishlist level, but it matters to *you* - you can't help integrate it in LP since LP is closed-source Is the only solution to just wait ? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
