Please can you guys take this off-list. Thanks. 2010/9/28, Alan BRASLAU <alan.bras...@cea.fr>: > On Tuesday 28 September 2010 10:54:26 Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Alan BRASLAU <alan.bras...@cea.fr> (28/09/2010): >> > I find your use of the word "complaining" disrespectful. A bug >> > report serves to give feedback, and being polite should be answered >> > politely. >> >> Insisting on a particular severity regardless of the maintainer's >> opinion is disrespectful. (Oh wait, the maintainers are even porters, >> so maybe they can figure out which severity is appropriate?) >> >> > NFS is a core functionality in many ways. It is therefore legitimate >> > that this bug be reported. >> >> That doesn't mean people can annoy maintainers until the feature is >> implemented. >> > > So sensitive! > > All one asks for is politeness. The use of "complaining", "annoying", > etc. shows no respect for the community. Do developers really > want to be isolated, or are they indeed interested in getting > feedback from users/testers? > > A bug report reflects needs. Maintainers can politely give information > on meeting these needs (or on the inappropriateness/marginality of > these particular needs). > > The problem with the current issue is that the maintainers/promoters > of kfreebsd ask about fitness for release and would somehow like > for this kernel to be adopted by part of the community. > Functionality so basic (and so long-standing) as NFS should be included. > > I suppose that the porting is not so trivial, otherwise it would > already be included. But much contradictory information > on this question can be found on the web, including messages > from maintainers claiming that it is there! > The purpose of the bug report is to clarify the situation, > not to provoke over-sensitive reactions on the part of developers. > Tit-for-tat responses are indeed unproductive and demotivating. > Such reactions show annoyance, and annoyance reveals unease. > > Alan > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009281118.24368.alan.bras...@cea.fr > >
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