On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 11:17 -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:33 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> >> On Thursday 05 March 2009 01:58:40 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >>> I don't question any of that, in fact it's clear to me that I
won't be
> >>> testing the thing myself, but I think my original point is being
missed,
> >>> to wit: would it not have been useful to include a brief summary of
what
> >>> the package is about so those of use who are not interested can know
> >>> we're not interested?
> >> Some (if not all) of those issues have been discussed on this list since
the
> >> beginning of kde-4.2.0 testing although the resulting explanation was not
as
> >> detailed as it happened on this thread.
> >
> > The very first reference I can find to either soprano or sesame on this
> > list is Rex's message. Perhaps you can point out some earlier discussion
> > here?
>
>
> I believe he meant in general. Not specifically about this package.
That's not at all clear. He talks about "those issues" and "the
resulting explanation ... on this thread" without defining which issues
and what explanation.
Never mind.
poc
I agree with Patrick O'Callaghan on these kind of situations. I see so
many emails, especially in fedora-devel, that assume too much about
the reader. I even voiced this once. The general expectation is for
the reader to make a search himself if he doesn't know the topic.
... which I find disturbing. It is really hard for a new contributor
to get used to the jargons used in these email lists, to the point
where it becomes discouraging, sometimes.
Well, maybe I spent too much time in the academic world, where
everything needs to be precise and unambiguous. I do believe that
everything non-trivial should be either explained or linked to
somewhere where it is explained. To define the term "non-trivial" in
this context, whenever I am writing emails, I tend to think how I
would explain things to my imaginary mother, whose only knowledge is
the Fedora guidelines.
Orcan