Philip Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:11:44PM -0400, Paul Gress wrote: > >> While I don't doubt that Blastwave has many packages available, and I >> have been using many. I also know that while there are thousands of >> packages available, there aren't any packages for accounting in >> Solaris. >> > > Interesting. Do you know of any free ones? I'd be happy to add it onto > our "requested packages" page. > > ( http://www.blastwave.org/pkgreq ) > > > Yes, that would be gnucash (www.gnucash.org). I believe I've requested this one approx. 1-1/2 to 2 years ago.
>> Basically I was asking that whatever new Software is requested, it >> should be reviewed and given a certain priority. Blastwave doesn't >> offer this. >> > > Assigning "priorities" makes the assumption that you can TELL people what > they are going to work on. Unless you pay them for this privilege, you dont > get to do that. People in the community/open source world tend to > work on "what they feel like". > > (on the flip side, if you'd like to offer some money for someone at > blastwave to package up your suggested free accounting package, > I'd be more than happy to forward on your request to our maintainers ;-) > > Well maybe some of the new people willing to sign up as a maintainer/developer who haven't any projects could review the list and start attacking it. I've seen recently of one person just begging to become a maintainer, requesting about three times so far. If you keep following the way you've been going you could miss on some good opensouce software. You need some discipline. Gee on the flip side, I could always pay $5,000 for one of the accounting packages on the Solaris compatibility list, if I had that cash.
