From: "Les Mikesell" lesmikesell@gmail.com
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:58, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
- Non-developers hesitate to post to devel lists because they repeatedly
have been instructed not to post end-user feedback to devel lists.
When they posted end user queries or send in rants that arent Fedora development specific.
Heh... How is a user supposed to know ahead of time which problem description is going to be called a rant by the developers and which is going to result in some development to fix it?
Elliot sent out that monetary support question recently. You are describing another way that the Fedora projects can be materially assisted by individuals. While you cannot get a tax write off for donated hours (you didn't get paid so no income exists to be deducted against) figuring out how to digest the lists into something really simple for the developers to follow might be a good idea. And if you can manage to thread the messages over a period of time you are most of the way to developing the digests. One or two lines of digest text per message thread that looks like something other than idle bantering should be enough to keep the developers aware of the buzz on the list. And if you include the message IDs for the messages, in a clickable format, the developers can read the more interesting and well put messages (if you score them in any way) in this thread or one like it.
It does seem that for most on this list (mea culpa) the proposition is all take and little or no give. That does seem unbalanced, bad karmic practice, and unfair when you stand back far enough and look at the whole picture.
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