Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[pinard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (François Pinard)]

[Niels Rasmussen]

> If I was you I would go and check out
> https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4553 and visit our "homepage" !
> This is the unofficial homepage for IceWM (i little while longer).
> Go to the Documentation page and see the FAQ and Beginners guide for
> any hints.  If this still doesn't get you anywhere I encourage you to
> join the mailinglist.

I'm not on the Internet usually (I receive my email through UUCP).  Let me
save a note for some next Internet session.  Thanks for the IceWM pointer.

I peeked in the FAQ installed here with the `icewm' package (let me see... it
says "in its version of Monday, 1999/09/27, 22:52 UTC") and found no direct
reply to any of my two questions.  Did I overlook something?  Participating
to a mailing list usually requires a lot of involvement.  One has to
read mail for a while just to become familiar with the gang and spirit.
For the usual cases[1], I much prefer direct contact with maintainers,
this is more economical, and usually works quite well on the average[2].

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[1] The unusual cases for me is Linux, either as a kernel or as a
distribution, as a lot of people are involved in each of these two aspects.

[2] Yet, for a few years now, I'm observing a growing pressure to make
things difficult.  People now ought to CVS-fetch blended mixes of unstable
versions of many inter-dependent packages, have to participate to a flurry
of mailing lists, and are sadly forced into very flashy but extremely poor
(usually Web-centric) emailing devices.  And this for the dubious right
of being listened to, while reporting problems, by bug-tracking systems
and committees, instead of by human beings.  I once knew easier times! :-)


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