On 02/20/2011 07:21 PM, Steve Meyers wrote: > On 2/20/11 12:03 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: >> I know i've already said that in that thread (but a lot of people have >> 'echoed' their own answers too, right ?:-) ) but i've had personally >> the case where people were asking to 'help the project' and when they >> were pointed to either improving the website, translate the wiki, >> chasing after potential banding issues, etc, etc .. the only answer i've >> got*multiple* times was "no, i'm not interested in doing that : i just >> want to rebuild packages" .. so each time it proved me that such people >> aren't interested in helping the project as a whole, but instead just >> want to focus on build issues. I'm really wondering (and still*my* >> opinion) if those people are interested in CentOS as a project, or just >> want to 'suck' some build scripts (which are just wrappers around >> mock/plague as stated so much times in that thread) to produce their own >> respins. > > Does rebuilding packages not count as helping the project? If the > release speed is seen as the biggest problem with the project, why do > you assume ulterior motives for people who want to help out with the effort? > > For goodness sake, it's an open source project. Who cares if the > occasional person wants to produce their own respin. > External rebuilds of packages could never be used by this project, or any other project. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20110220/c8ae8a28/attachment-0007.sig>