[om-council] Forwarding email from Ben
rugyada
rugyada at gmail.com
Sat May 13 04:15:13 EDT 2017
2017-05-13 2:38 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at lindev.ch>:
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> It has been discussed in TC meetings for months. And this is really where this belongs, since it's a technical decision that won't have a big effect on the end user (who will still see the exact same frontends). We're even planning to provide a wrapper script that will do the right thing if a user types "urpmi whatever" on the command line.
> From a pure end user perspective, the only noticeable thing will be bugs disappearing and possibly updates installing a little faster - so this is really not all that different from updating glibc, switching from man to man-db or all the other things we've done at some point that simply aren't newsworthy enough to bore users with. (But of course given the history, we'd get some death threats from the likes of Blackcrack for moving further away from the releases of the 90s).
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Dear Bero,
Look, it's not my intention to argue endlessly on it, because it's not
really my field hence I would not be able to face a debate on very
technical matters.
What is arising one more time imho is the lack of communication.
We pushed for the #share short sentences in meeting log (yet another
boring thing got lost) also to allow we - let's call middle-persons
like Ben, JCL, me and others who are in more close contact with forum
users and PR at large - to spread what's going on.
Yes people don't read every full log every time, it's obvious. I do,
but tend to have a quick read on what is strictly technical dialog.
I'd expect that major decisions would be isolated from the [essential
for developers but boring for common users] rest.
What keep on making me very sad is that the users' main complaint vs.
mdv was lack of communication, and we are doing the same if not worse.
Very disappointing...
> But, that said, it can't hurt to make more of a noise about all the things we're doing (but we need a volunteer to do it!) -- every time I see one of the gazillion articles saying things like "OMG! Ubuntu just upgraded to Mesa 17.0! They're GODS!", my reaction is a big yawn and "In the mean time, we're already on 17.1 and nobody talks about it".
> We may need to do something there regardless of whether or not there's an issue with keeping our own community informed.
>
Give us some inputs, and we'll share also a big news about your
yesterdays evening supper :))
Friendly,
Cristina
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