Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-04 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:36PM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: > I appreciate every feedback from every single user, and I think that > only that feedback can bring an application to higher levels. It sounds like you have a specific complaint, and you're trying to make a general complaint.

Re: [proposal] Include list of files created in $HOME as a control file

2003-07-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:15:31PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Ok, that's an interesting point of view. But it has just one problem. > When the package is purged, its configuration files are removed, so, in > this case, I wouldn't have the list for purged packages, which are the > one that the use

Re: [proposal] Include list of files created in $HOME as a control file

2003-07-04 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Ok, that's an interesting point of view. But it has just one problem. When the package is purged, its configuration files are removed, so, in this case, I wouldn't have the list for purged packages, which are the one that the user will (in most cases) want to remove the config files. But at other

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:36PM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: > > Hmmm, If I ever was to write and release an application, I'd be more > > than happy to delegate dirty work to someone else. I'm fairly convinced > > that upstream authors consider dealing with bug reports, suggestions > > and

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-04 Thread Michele Alessandrini
> Hmmm, If I ever was to write and release an application, I'd be more > than happy to delegate dirty work to someone else. I'm fairly convinced > that upstream authors consider dealing with bug reports, suggestions > and alikes a dirty work. Just imagine receiving doezens of emails > directly from

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-04 Thread Przemyslaw Brojewski
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:14:04AM +0200, Michele Alessandrini wrote: > But I think a software author strongly wishes to acknowledge everything > happens about his program, like users feedback, criticisms, bugs, > suggestions, so in many cases he would not delegate others for this "burden" > (tr

Re: aren't software authors misestimated?

2003-07-04 Thread Michele Alessandrini
Hi, thanks everyone for replies. I understand the role and the work of package maintainers, but I think it should be comparable with the work of upstream author who developed the software, so maybe the name of the author and the url of the program might have the opportunity of being reported eve