You are NOT alone. Don't let the lack of attention get you down, Mandrake is not the most attentive company out there . . . even though they have a strong community of enthusiastic and caring users - sometimes the calls for alarm fall on deaf ears. It's a shame.
R.Fox On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 11:25, RA wrote: > On Freitag, 22. März 2002 01:27:01, David BAUDENS wrote: > > On Thursday 21 March 2002 22:08, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > > Now that Mandrake 8.2 is out, is there any chance someone might be > > > baking some nice KDE 3 RC3 binaries (official or not)? Andreas > > > sounded pretty enthusiastic in his post to the Dot this morning... > > > > Hum, well, let me see... I have reinstalled our KDE build machine to be > > able to build quickly KDE packages for all distributions we are > > supporting, Laurent fight with RC3 packages and the build machine > > complaint saying 'I want hollidays!'... So, hum, yes? > > > > Just wait some time. > > (http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker/2002-03/msg03182.php) > > Perhaps I'm thin-skinned. But sometimes I believe that only a few people > got answers to their emails. And I'm one of these guys making noise in your > ml. > >From my point of view this holds true not only for such questions as above, > but generally. > I posted some bugs during the beta/rc period of 8.2. Regarding those bugs > which I was the only one who committed - okay, not many, perhaps only one or > two - I got no response at all. I had to wait for a new package each day, > looking changelogs, when it was changed. I often saw better examples of > reactions of package maintainers/developers. > Don't understand me wrong. It could be that I'm greatly thin-skinned and > frustrated. And probably my bug reports and RPM packages are bad. But I think > that my criticism described a real trend. > > Ralf. > >
