Heya Phil,
Phil Schaffner wrote:
Will come out of my "lurker" closet to chime in agreement with Claire. This would seem to be the appropriate list to discuss the philosophy and implications of development decisions.
agreed.
I subscribed originally because of testing packages and wanting to provide feedback through the appropriate channel. I have stayed because of interest in where the development is headed and the opportunity to see what the developers are thinking in a high signal-to-noise environment.
I also don't get paid to develop CentOS, and don't have time to hang out on IRC, but can give a bit back to the community by providing feedback, bug reports, and occasional help on the users list. [Although I find my opinions are sometimes not shared by the developers, hay, that's what community dialog is all about, and I tend to defer to their opinions and avoid pointless debates and flame wars. But I digress...]
you know, I actually appreciate people who make noises when we do stuff that they do and dont agree with. Isnt that what open source is all about ? The ability to bring in lots of eyes on simple issues ? We all gain, all around.
so please dont stop and/or hold back. Flame wars only happen when one side refuses to accept the others point of view. I think everyone is entitled to an opinion, and besides a flamefest every now and then is also a good thing :)
Please do consider more discussions on issues such as the yumconf approach on this list.
yes, we know that we should have made a bit of noise about this yumconf issue before it went out into the wild. I think we've all learn't a lesson here.
- KB