Good Morning, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:35 -0400, Steven Harms wrote: > This sounds more like 'How not to encourage anyone to help at all'. > The tone of the comments > in the bug are very confrontational when clearly all these people > wanted was a functional > package. > > They saw a package that didn't work for *anyone* and wanted to change > it. They were not > seasoned pro's, and I think this is just a testimate to the lack of a > obvious process.
Well, I made this mistake with ruby1.9 in the past, and Lucas and I were discussing it, and somehow we came over that. The problem with a change inside this package, speak: "We changed something really serious, which has a "gem" in the name" is really not trivial. Even if you think your fix is a good one, and helps your people, but it won't help the common situation in general. There needs to be a talk...and when I recall my inbox, there was a lot of talk because of this crap named gem. > It would be a shame, on the heels of developer week, to lambaste new > contributors on > mailing lists. TBH, ruby is a very strange thing...and imho it would have been better to include Lucas in this discussion and finding with him a good solution which suites all, not only ubuntu. The problem with gem is not ubunut specific, and we need to come to a good solution with upstream + all downstreams. Lucas reply to this issue was very sarcastic, but nevertheless regarding this issue, he was right. Regards, \sh -- Stephan '\sh' Hermann | OSS Developer & Systemadministrator JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcecode.de/ GPG ID: 0xC098EFA8 | http://leonov.tv/ 3D8B 5138 0852 DA7A B83F DCCB C189 E733 C098 EFA8 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
