Hello, Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2015 schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
* Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> [2015-05-07 15:57]:
What are the reasons that people don't answer our calls for help?
I can think of a few reasons: [...]
I fully agree with those reasons, and have another one ;-) As you probably know, I'm maintaining the AppArmor package [1]. Over the time, I moved more and more to the upstream side of things (especially the aa-* tools) and recently even DoS'ed the other developers with a big patch series to review ;-) This work also ends up in openSUSE, but probably in a less visible way - "new upstream release" sounds easy in the .changes, while "added patches to fix boo#x, #y and #z" looks like a lot more work and a very active maintainer. (If I'd add each of my upstream commits as patch to the AppArmor package, maintaining it would be fun[tm]...) Of course this means I invest a bigger part of my free time on the upstream AppArmor work, which also reduces the time _directly_ spent on openSUSE (so I might look "less active" in openSUSE) - but the invested time/work comes back to openSUSE with the next AppArmor release. Oh, BTW: This $%&$§ buildservice is ruining my bugzilla activity statistics! Some years ago, the only method to get rid of bugs was filing a bugreport. Nowadays it's often easier and faster to send a SR for small bugs/fixes, which also means not writing a bugreport ;-)) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] I could write a similar mail about PostfixAdmin, where I'm currently the most active upstream author and also package it for openSUSE. -- Meine allerste Festplatte hatte 30 MB, und ich war der King, weil alle anderen 20 MB hatten. Sie fragten, was ich mit 30 MB wolle, die bekomme ich doch nie voll. ;) Meine jetzige Graphikkarte hat mehr. ;)) [Bernd Brodesser in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org