On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 06:59 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:22 -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote:
"JP" == Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com
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Like, I suspect, most people using CentOS, I'm not paid to work on the OS, and I don't have time to hang out on IRC on the off chance that someone will bring up something that might completely screw up my systems down the road.
That comment is utterly ridiculous.
<snip the response about how we all work for free: irrelevant>
Your the second (3rd?) responder to miss/ignore the point? I *guess* you missed it since you launch into a (emotionally inspired?) response that appears defensive, as well as counter-productive, IMO.
If I may be permitted a guess, based on an impartial reading? Her point was that her particular situation does not allow her the luxury of monitoring the IRC stuff as well as the lists. I have that luxury and choose *not* to monitor multiple sources.
Everybody's situation is different. A *consistency* of process benefits all. If the discussion occurs on IRC and final decision occurs there, it does take some effort to make sure that at least a notification appears on the appropriate list(s). If there is not a formal procedure in place to assure this occurs, individuals are easily forgiven for overlooking that step.
But once that sort of failure is identified, there is no forgiveness for the "organization" if they don't expend at least as much effort in trying to ensure that the blunder is not repeated as they did telling the complainants they were wrong because they could have done a or b or c...
Since there are multiple "victims" (based on posts), it should not be viewed as an easily-dismissed aberration by one lax user.
As to the movement of the fails, the complaints I recall are not entirely that they were moved, but that they were moved without any notification apparent to those particular users. Of course it is not reasonable for the project to try to anticipate all possible field- implemented variations that may be affected by any change. But that does not mean, and you do *not* say/imply, that you should just ignore the possible damaging effects of changes *Of_which_you_are_aware*.
As one possible solution that rational (I guess that means "non- engineering" types! ;-) beings might consider is to require a notification of change to whatever list is deemed most extensive in coverage, or even multiple lists, *when_a_change_has_been_identified_as_having_possible_effect* in the user community.
If this is beyond the scope of what CentOS hopes to achieve, then a simple say so would also be considered sufficient by all... I would *hope*.
MHO -- Bill