Pascal Bleser wrote:
No, I really don't get it.. What about if I was saying: I build all those RPMs for the openSUSE community, hence, I'm going to blacklist all the people subscribed on linuxclub.de because I don't care about them. Stupid and irrelevant ? Indeed. Is it a fair comparison ? Not really, but not that far-fetched either. (Technically impossible ? Indeed ;)))
Pascal, please understand that your contributions are valued highly everywhere that I have been(virtually) in the openSUSE community. The opinions expressed by an individual or individuals at a particular forum are by no means representative of any others. I can tell you that the members at suseforums.net hold your repository and it's contents at the highest level of respect, and frankly we're often in awe at how much you contribute year after year. Personally I run many of your high quality packages, they are always excellent and I recommend them almost daily. To the list, you're correct in assuming that many forums want to remain autonomous, but that doesn't mean that we can't communicate more effectively as a community. It's hard to let go of so many hard years work. It literally takes two to three years to build up a successful forum, and that is assuming that you have competent Mods and Admins from day one (which we do). Don't let this discourage you from reaching out, and the reverse applies. Harryc --