Philip Brown wrote: > Its not a matter of "reconsidering". It's a matter of someone volunteering > (or being "financially encouraged") to take it up. I'm not their boss; > I'm certainly not paying them any money :-) Thus, i dont tell people what > they have to package. > > > Again you point out a big deficiency of Blastwave. Do you think the entire Linux could have been built on whether programmers asked themself, does this benefit me or do I feel like doing it? No, somebody has to lay out the ground work, and all the volunteers have to follow that ground work. Otherwise you could have a big hole nobody is willing to fill. I understand that ultimately, a programmer does ask himself these questions, but this is after he has decided to volunteer understanding the rules.
>> It's now in pre 2.0 release (1.9.5) >> and uses the libs of gnome 2 and not the old gnome 1 series. >> > > We dont do "pre releases" at blastwave, as a general rule. If it's not > stable enough to be called a 'released version', it's not stable enough to > be called a blastwave package. > > As for pre releases, you start testing the software in your testing directory to see how stable it is.
