On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:36:32 -0400 Freemor <free...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:12:16 +0000 > Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <omp...@eircom.net> wrote: > > > I appear to have offended some people yesterday, for this I say > > sorry, please read on and I will try to give the same message > > without the rant. > > > [SNIP] > > > > Hope this helps a bit. > > > > P. > > > Well Said, I know that there are a lot of people out there that have > little understanding of what is involved in maintaining a single > package, let alone an entire Distro. There are some packages I'd love > to see in gNewSense (gnash 0.8.6, Transmission 1.75, etc) but since I We sync in gnash snapshots. > do not have the time to offer to maintain the package I just compile > from source and go on my way. I wish I did have the time as I would Contributing doesn't have to be maintaining packages - forwarding bugs upstream and (in the case of grub specifically) helping upstream keep their packages valid would be a great help. kk > love to contribute to the project in that way. I can't even begin to > imagine the work that goes into maintaining 2.3 while trying to get > 3.0 out the door. (much thanks to all the Dev's BTW). -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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