Bad-mouthing and hostility

[Darren VanBuren]

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.


Darren VanBuren
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On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:17, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>
>> You really dont care of the few users who use it and will let them go
>> to another distribution who provides the software?
>> And even dont care about the lost contributor?
>> I thought we are on the "we need/want more contributors" way.
>>
>> I'm having a hard time to understand the motivation why you wrote  
>> that.
>
> I'll quote the sections:
>
> 20:43:30 <mjg59> The risk is when we have packages where 3 votes is a
> substantial proportion of the users
> 20:43:45 <skvidal> mjg59: which, imo, makes me wonder why we're  
> shipping
> those pkgs at all.
> 20:43:58 <mjg59> skvidal: It's not unreasonable
> 20:44:06 <skvidal> mjg59: to wonder that? or to ship them?
> 20:44:11 <mjg59> skvidal: Either
>
>
> and then
> 20:58:44 <notting> cwickert: ... i could be convinced that for the  
> far out
> fringe packages that passing autoqa may be enough
> 20:59:12 <skvidal> notting: I'd believe that far out fringe pkgs might
> fall into the category of things to be removed :)
>
>
>
>
> I don't think I could have made more qualified statements
>
> In the first one I said "it makes me wonder why" and in the second  
> one I
> said "might fall into".
>
> We're really getting nitpicky here about things I wonder about.
>
> -sv
>
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