On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 10:20, Martin Sevior wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:26, Martin Sevior wrote: > > > Because he did them right away and uploaded them to sourceforge thus > > > saving me lots of time.
> > You know perfectly well I won't do that, and I don't think a little > > laziness compensates for all the work done. > If you call being up for 36 hours straight lazy your crazy. I've been > hacking constantly on abiword for 2 whole years. I have done tons of > work for the project. If someone saves me some time by showing me some > consideration then I certainly take them up on it. Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT misinterpret what I said. I'm not talking about code. That doesn't save you more time than including a link for an alternative download site. Also, it does not have to be you uploading to sourceforge. > To transfer all the rpms from site to another I have to do about 100 > megabytes of transfers. That is real time and bandwidth wasted. So, why not even mention the url? Does it transfer many megabytes to include a link? Oh iu forgot, you think it is confusing... so let's read your argument for confusion... > > > Why confuse people with two download sites? > > What, providing an alternate site for download is confusing? You really > > lost me on that. > We have a website setup for directing people to the builds of abiword that > best suit their needs. This includes windows and mac users. I would like > as many people as possible to visit our website so that we have a chace to > get a bit more publicity and give them a chance to learn more us. All > simple, sensible marketing. But you said that it would be confusing! This is not an argument for the link confusing users! So if it's not a case of causing confusion to users, then let's not hold on to a false "holy grail". The web site can (at no huge cost) point to a link to an alternative download. It may even be faster for some users. I do not say that download.phtml is a refresh url for savannah's link, ok? If I go there it automagically figures out I'm on a redhat machine and show's me links to the rpms at sourceforge. So what you're doing is only: * disrespect completely my work You didn't even talk to me, not even when I asked you about including a link in the announcement, you just said that I could post it if I so wished. And so I did. But I could do that anyway. * not providing an alternative place for download Some users may feel that another website may have a faster download Some users may not feel inclined towards supporting sourceforge, as I am not. Regards, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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