Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (502 mails)

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:01 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Per Jessen wrote:
> > > Well, I disagree - you seem to want to discount the opinion of
> those
> > > 50,000 users, though, which is why I think you think that it's
> > > tangential.  The users *are* important, and their preferences are
> > > important.
> > IMHO, users who refuse to listen to sound advice are *not*
> important. 
> > Those are the ones we are discussing, not the thousands of other who
> > are happy with the help they receive. 
>
> I don't think this is a productive conversation at this point.  You
> have your perspective, and Jim has his based on decades of experience
> and tens of thousands of forum users.
>
> In the end, what matters in an Open Source project is what volunteers
> (or companies) offer in terms of contributions.  We clearly have a
> nice
> number of volunteers who support the forums, and asking for support of
> the forums on this list is perfectly valid, too.
>
> Beyond that, just agree to disagree on this one?
>
> Gerald 

+1 to Gerald's statement.  Over the years, I've come to know and expect
Jim's postings on various threads to be one of the sanest and most
centered in terms of bringing facts together in a cohesive way that
helps us to better understand the situation at hand.   Thanks for all
your help and contributions over the years, Jim!

Bryen


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