On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:43 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:19:35 +0100 Christel Dahlskjaer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of > | keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of > | your time or getting in your way) and then keep the masses informed, > | would that be more attractive? Obviously making sure that information > | is kept to a not exactly bare minimum, but presented in such a way > | that it doesn't in any way halt progress or potential change of > | direction? > > If it's information on things that are fine being public but aren't > simply because of lack of time to write them up, then that would be > great. If it's things that're being kept quiet purposefully, however, > then the last thing we want is to start telling people things.
Yes, I agree with that entirely. If things are being kept quiet for a reason we will have no wish to attempt to push for these to be made public before the decision to do so is reached by the development teams in question. > > | > Hence why some of us don't announce non-trivial projects on public > | > mailing lists, and instead keep any discussion on -core and sekrit > | > IRC channels. That's how what's now known as eselect was developed, > | > and it turned out far nicer than the XML-laden aborted gentoo-config > | > project precisely because of the lack of end user 'input'. > | > | In more of a informative 'these are the exciting things we're doing' > | sort of way rather than a 'tell us why you disagree' sort of way > | maybe. > > See, that doesn't work. There's this strange notion that because we're > open source, users somehow have a right to a) see the code, b) make > suggestions, c) demand new features, d) get support and e) annoy other > developers or upstream when they break something that has a knock-on > effect of breaking an unrelated package. I was rather unclear, I think your previous passage had me rather spot on for what I was wanting to do. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
