On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rudi Ahlers Rudi@softdux.com wrote:

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+centos@betteradmin.com wrote:

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Appreciate your efforts, but let's make one thing clear:

The SINGLE source of ALL the current community issues (or "whining" as you put it) is:    ***LACK OF INFORMATION***    ***LACK OF INFORMATION***    ***LACK OF INFORMATION*** about what is going on.

No one cares if it's going to take another 3 months.

All that is needed to stop the weekly explosions are some regular updates about the process.  Something like "Working on xyz package but ran into this problem.  Still have to look at packages abc and def" would more than satisfy a vast majority of people complaining here. It's mind boggling that the project just doesn't seem to understand that.

// Brian Mathis

and prolong development even further..........

-- Rudi Ahlers SoftDux

Rudi, the most professional thing I can think of to say about this argument, which is continually used, is that it's complete BS.

Any developer who doesn't already use some type of status tracking tool is such a beginner that they have probably not yet completed primary school. Clearly this is NOT the level of the CentOS devs.

Also, this gets into a much deeper discussion of what is the work product of any IT person. The thing preventing you from doing more work is not how fast you can type, but working out problems. To say that keeping track of your status slows down problem solving is completely ignorant -- in fact it's the opposite since you need to sleep sometime and status tracking will help you get back up to speed faster the next day.

// Brian Mathis