On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Horton wrote:
I have been a bit puzzled over where the package tracker fits in the big scheme of things. There are obviously a lot of resources devoted to improving the fink program itself, when from the average users point of view it seems to work very nicely already. Sure, anything can be improved, but I frankly wouldn't be at all bothered if fink was only updated as required for future OS releases.
I think the average user would hope for a continual stream of new packages, which means you need people to keep feeding the package tracker with new submissions. However, there doesn't seem to be very many resources available to keep the package tracker moving. It can take so long to get a response to a submission that I suspect many submitters would get frustrated and decide that he was wasting his time trying to help out.
I realize that this is a volunteer project, and people will work on what interests them. So, how do we make it more interesting for people to keep the package tracker moving?
Kevin Horton happy fink user slightly frustrated package creator
I agree. It is hard to get people to do this continuously, but several people do it. benh57 did quite a lot at one point (and is still doing a lot), then chris01 and dmacks started doing a lot. But they have their own packages (and lives) and sometimes get too busy to do it.
For me, it's hard to complain when the people that would be doing this are instead doing something very important, like adding prebinding to fink or porting gnome or xfree86, adding rsync to fink or any of a whole host of amazing and truly great things. And all my little package does is wave an American flag in gKrellM. :-)
This is an example. Some of my packages are pretty nifty, IMHO, but you get the point.
I think part of my problem was my own fault. I didn't adequately explain what some of my packages were, so people look at it and say, "what the heck is that?", then go onto the next thing, something that interests them more. That's how some things stay in the tracker for over a month and others stay just a day or so.
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