On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> > I'm continuing my work, and I will upload PDF files to Wikimedia
> > Commons, but I will keep the editable source files (ODT) offline.
> >
> > Wikimedia Commons is already full of posters and brochures in PDF,
> > where the editable source files are unavailable.  That is sad.
>
> Yes, sad. I think everysone agrees. But not trivial to fix. So, help with
> fixing
> it, or wait for someone else to fix it. Complaining doesn't help. Such is
> the
> nature of open source projects.


Sometimes complaining does help, though.  And such *is* the nature of open
source projects - "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is not a
statement that "given enough coders, all bugs are fixable".

Code is better than complaints, but complaints are better than nothing.
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