On Wednesday 19 September 2001 4:50 pm, jfweber@eternal.net wrote:
** Reply to message from "Purple Shirt"
on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:52:45 ** I send feedback emails before requesting ifhp to be bundled with suse and it ** still isn't after 4 releases even though suse ships lprng which is created ** by the same guy. I also requested livejournal to be bundled and I don't ** think it will ever make it.
could this not also be a matter of licensing? I know a lot of guys who write various types of programs ... some are free and/o easy to license , and others simply are not, they are intended as commercial products ....
I know how frustrating it is to feel one's feedback isn't recieved or at least not paid attention to .. but , frankly , I'd rather the Suse guys kept working on the next version ... most likely fixoring the same bugs that people have noted. Since those packages are usually installed by some folksas the variuous packages become available ... it must be equally maddening to get these messages from users and not be able to figure out exactly what verions of which pieces are causing the headaches. After all we keep hearing from users here that they "haven't got time to read all that stuff" perhaps some of the suse folks suffer from verbage fatigue as well ?? BTW is bugzilla easily licensed ??
afterthought: A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
I couldn't agree more. How many problems posted on this list are bug related? Not many I'd say. In fact, most of the problems seem to occur because many of us are not content with the current release of SuSE and are always set on getting the latest version of a particular package (KDE 2.2 for example). What's your computer for? Doing work? Or just play? I have confidence that SuSE are doing a good job and have their eye on the ball. The changes between SuSE 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 are testiment to this. To benefit from a bug reporting system SuSE need to know that the information entered is valid. This requires a certain competence level that many users won't have. This list generates between 100 and 150 messages each day; can you image what would happen with a public bug reporting system? I've been using this list since July and already I see the same questions posted from time to time because it's easier to ask a question than to find out for yourself. Here's a useful resource that everyone should use before posting on any list: http://www.google.com/. ;-) M