At 22:37 Uhr -0700 16.11.2002, Steven Burr wrote:
I don't want to prevent them from doing that, but the fact is that often we get things about bugs in stable packages that are actually already fixed in stable! That's a bit annoying.On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 07:11 PM, Ben Hines wrote:I'm not crazy about this idea. What if a user discovers a problem with a stable package and wants to let the maintainer know? Why should he prevented from using FinkCommander to do that?On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 11:43 AM, Max Horn wrote:Maybe we should ask the fink commander author to restrict reports only on packages that are actually *not* in stable? Or even if it is in stable, refuse if the last CVS update is more than a week ago... I am really sick of getting mails that tell me "I didn't use it much, but (gettext|dpkg|apt|...) seem to work fine here".
Yes, sorry forgot to get to that which you requested last time.
But more annoying to me is when I get *positive* feedback on essential packages in stable! That is usless!
To me it seems an easy way out is to offer two commands: one for positive feedback, one for negative. Then the positive one could warn if feedback is done on stable/essential packages. The negative one OTOH might warn if a package is "old". I don't want them to prevent the user from doing the feedback, but rather the goal is to increase the signal/noise ratio. The more noise we get, the less useful feedback is, after all!
Please don't understand this as a "demand", it just would feel to me that this would not could down on the user experience but would rather allow users to channel their willingness to help out into a more useful form.
And of course I realize it's you who would have to implement it, and that you might not have the time, or might not even like the idea, I am just suggesting it :-)
Unfortunately, if it goes on like that (the "feedback reports" on dpkg etc.), I'll have to filter out FinkCommander generated emails just to prevent my mailbox from flooding again :-/
Cheers,
Max
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