Latest Fedora Core 3 status: kernel testing needed

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:22 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Doesn't _necessarily_ mean no one is listening.
> 
> But it could :)
> 

Correct. And to those with very little involvement in this community,
it's disheartening to put in the work to report something and then feel
that the report is ignored.

Perception *is* reality in these cases, where you have essentially two
communities: the programmers and the users. The users have to feel like
their input is useful and actually used, lest they quit offering it.

I'm not all that thrilled with Bugzilla myself, to tell you the truth.
Bug #125587 is an example [1], filed on June 8th, with a few comments
added in for good measure, and *nothing* done about it so far. IPv6
still loads and the system does not obey "NETWORKING_IPV6=no" as it
should. Granted, that was the first bug I filed and I might have done
better... but it was/is a legitimate problem and it bothered me that
absolutely nothing was done about it. Or it sure looked that way.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125587

Now, it so happens that I fully understand that you guys don't have all
the time/resources/people/money you might like and that you're doing the
best you can. I also respect what "the best you can" has produced so
far.* So I will keep learning and attempting to contribute, and I will
file more bugs and get more involved. This is not a complaint, it is
constructive criticism.

But that does not mean everyone else will.

* With the single exception of the mailing-list archives which are an
embarrassment to archives everywhere. Those just suck, truly and
terribly, and they have absolutely no redeeming virtues whatsoever.

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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