* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-02 20:31]: > > something works as expected. You only notice when it suddenly > > breaks. So if 95% of communication with James works well, we will > > never hear about it. But we hear about the 5% which fails. > Damn users ... this is always the same. ;-)
Well, I don't want to play it down. If there is a problem, it has to be fixed, no matter if it's 1% or 5%. It's also not just users, but developers as well. However, one disturbing trend I have seen is that FUD is increasingly common. It seems to be "in" to rant about various things, even if it has no factual basis. In many cases, I see very uninformed postings. This is a real problem because people are no longer available to distinguish between real problems and mere rants. Due to this, there is a growing number of developers and users who feel that Debian is falling apart, while it fact most things are working pretty well. We have to do something against this, otherwise more and more people will get frustrated (also see my answer to AJ's mail, especially the end). My approach to this is to give _factual_ information (one example for this would be my posting about the status of buildds, but there are many similar postings from me; for one, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200402/msg00463.html). Finally, I believe that complaints like "person X cannot communicate" or "X sucks" or whatever are not very helpful (Andreas, I'm not accusing you of doing so with your question; I'm talking in general, based on what I see on -devel and other lists, and I think your questioon is based on this as well). I try to identify exactly what the problem is and then to tackle it. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]