On Sat, August 8, 2009 8:44 pm, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Marko A. Jennings wrote:
On Sat, August 8, 2009 4:04 pm, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Robertlists07@abbacomm.net wrote:
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please stop poking the bears... ;->
it isn't productive and many of you that are critical of CentOS and the people running it should just move on and go away as asked
+1 How easy it is to criticize people who have put in a tremendous amount of hours, without pay, working on the CentOS project. There is always room for improvement, but the criticism from those who have not put in the hours over the past years is not deserved.
Lanny,
Your statement implies that people that have not contributed to a certain goal cannot possibly have a good suggestion. Following that line of thought, we should all shut up and let our respective governments do whatever they please because most of us have not been public servants.
And even if the suggestion (or criticism, as lots of suggestions have been labeled as of lately) is not valid, there are kinder and more polite ways of responding to them than those we have experienced in this thread.
Marko
Following that line of thought, we should all shut up and let our respective governments do whatever
CentOS is not a government or a Democracy ... it was not designed to be. It is a product that we produce for people to use or not use.
They get to choose to participate in the mailing lists, the forums, etc.>
They get to choose to donate money or servers or bandwidth to the project.
They do NOT get to tell us what to build, when to build it, how to use donated resources, etc. Just like I don't get to login to your servers and do what I want when you use CentOS.
Where exactly have I said, or even implied that? All I have tried to convey is that when people offer suggestions, they ought to be considered and answered in a polite manner. As I said before, it's not what is being said, but rather how.
Do we agree on this?