Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Cliff Sarginson <cliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:53:12AM +0400, Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
> Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
> 
> > Dear all!
<friendly snip>

> I already saw some feedback on my message.
> 
> I did not really want a flame blowing here, but i would people to 
> understand me correctly:
> 
> most people are just too shy to place their feedback to developers and 
> package makers, whereas more feedback could help make linux more 
> user-friendly enviroment.
> 
> I admire the work of Open Source develpers, who do all this stuf mostly 
> in their spare time.
> I greatly admire work of SuSE engineers. And though this company now 
> spares hard days, it still continues to deliver us its great solutions 
> and service.
> 
> If you are a programmer, and know how to do the thing you want to see -- 
> just tell it or post you changes. If you are not -- just tell your wishes.
> 
> I say all this things, because i know some of my friend who patch 
> programs themselves, saying: someone should have already posted the 
> bug/feature i found, why should I tell the developer about it twice? -- 
> But they did not even check this, and in the next release they find the 
> same old bugs/features in their old places.
> 
> 
> For example MOZILLA project -- i guess they have enough work on sorting 
> wishes and bug reportings already, but still, they ask us (users) for 
> more feedback to improve the quality of their product for us (users)
> 
> That is exactly what i wanted to say, not willing to offend our honored 
> developers and package builders!
> 
> Sincerelly here,
>                   Vitaly.

I think most people understood the sentiments expressed in your message :)

Cliff