On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Felix Miata wrote:
ISTR Novell not so long ago laid off a number of employees who worked on openSUSE. It seems there's a lot of slack created from that, and these are small parts of a much larger problem lurking and waiting to bite more and more often.
What is the point you are trying to make? The FreeBSD ports collection has about 22000 ports and not a single Novell employee is paid to work on them (nor FreeBSD.org employees)...
I mentioned this thread subject multiple times in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584493 filed more than 4 months ago which has all but totally been ignored.
...and the misc/mc port there is at version 4.7.2. openSUSE, like any other Open Source projects, needs contributions, community, volunteers.
This resource lack is exacerbated by the artificial Novell distinction and double work between "bugs" and "features", with separate databases for both.
Looks like a red herring to me.
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer