Re[gnu.misc.discuss,gnu.emacs.gnus] Free software: Packagers vs Developers
> From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
> > If you feel you (and possibly a few others you have personally
> > selected) are the only person who can touch the code...
> > We are not sabotaging your work. We are enhancing it. And it is your
> > problem, not ours, if you refuse our help by deleting our messges
>
> I keep an open development model in which everybody can easily
> participate. It works very well most of the time, except when some
> middlemen interfere, shielding the users from the developers.
If my mother uses your programm (actually, she doesn't, but she could), she will
have problems with it. Now, she ask me why it doesn't work. I'm an middleman. If
I think it's a bug in the package, I'll tell it to the maintainer, which can
send it upstream (to you) or not if you aren't concerned with this issue.
Now try to imagine how it could work without middleman : You'll get 5 mails per
day from my mother to ask things which are in the doc, she only speaks french,
and she can't do a "well done bug report or a well argued feature request".
Don't you need some middlemen ?
Bye, Mt.
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