Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:53 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
The maintainers for beagle should be taken out and kneecapped, or beat about the head with a police baton.
Every day
I'm starting to get tired of the hating on Beagle's devs.
Excuse me...has anyone really expressed HATRED towards the Beagle dev...
Uh...Aaron, YES! :-) Yes. You are saying they should be violently beaten every day.
Or have we just been noting that the software suffers from a VERY SERIOUS DEFICIENCY -- see "Constructive Criticism"
Constructive? All I see is tearing it down. Constructive would be looking at the code, making improvements and patches and sending them into the developer(s). What have you done that is not criticism? Have you constructed any code or have you suggested any improvements to any specific lines? What algorithms have you suggested they use? I don't mean general comments on behavior -- I mean specific suggestions that would *help* a developer -- that does not include comparisons to any closed-source product since the source isn't available. I keep seeing this topic coming up and wonder why it is still being discussed? Have you filed a bug report? If so, what more do you expect at this point? Have you tried making it from source? Have you figured out where and why it slows down? What routine, function or line of code? Have you created a test case? Is it repeatable?
"hating on" should be banished from the English language, because it is so widely abused by people who can't handle the fact that not everything or everybody is worthy of pure, unqualified praise now and forever.
Ask any software project owners if I'm *ever* guilty of unqualified praise! I complain more than *most*, but I submit specific bugs with test cases as well. If necessary, and the developer appears 'swamped' and if it is important enough to me, I try making the product from the source RPMS and see if I can find out what is causing my problem. But before I start ragging on developers to "fix" something, I first ask if others have seen it. If it is not a universal experience, I start looking at 'why'. How do you know it isn't specific to certain pieces of hardware? As one example of a "bug-in-progress" that I haven't reported to anyone outside myself is "rotten performance copying a file from a WinXP box to an x86_64-linux box. I get an average speed of 771K/s -- over a 1Gigabit ethernet. I'm using "scp". Should I complain to the author of "scp" that my performance sucks? I could, but I'd look pretty stupid. I bit of investigation on my own shows: WinXP->ia32-linux, average 10MB/s, and ia32->x86_64 (the same target that was slow from WinXP) averages 12.9MB/s. So who do I complain to? Do I rag on the author of "scp" on the "opensuse" mailing list? Who do I scream at -- because 771K/s is obviously *BAD*... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org