Bad-mouthing and hostility

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:55:26AM -0800, Darren VanBuren wrote:
> > These emails are quite discouraging on packaging my software, which  
> > fits into this category of unpopular software. I don't think the  
> > intention is to discourage packagers, especially new packagers. I  
> > would hope not at least.
> 
> This presents an interesting case for a community team not like our
Um, oops.                                           unlike --^^^^

:-)

> package reviewers.  I would hazard a guess that when someone fixes
> what I tend to call "edge" packages -- and I have a few of these
> myself -- they tend to have bug reports concerning that fix.  So
> creating a small test plan should be pretty easy.  If the new
> package fixes the observed problem, and the actual code change is
> pretty much constrained to the fix, then anyone participating in such
> a team could test the fix.
> 
> I did this the other day using Till Maas' new karma script, although I
> didn't have time to hit every package I was consuming from
> updates-testing.  Took me about 10-15 minutes to participate and give
> about 6-8 packages appropriate karma after testing what they said they
> fixed.
> 
> Although we shouldn't have a goal of "include as much software as
> possible," we also shouldn't discourage new, well-maintained software.

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