[csw-maintainers] amendments and issues with recent prop

Maciej Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Fri Jul 1 11:44:59 CEST 2011


2011/7/1 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Thu Jun 30 20:48:20 -0400 2011:
>>
>>> ah, no, I did not have "plenty of time". I just barely have enough
>>> free time to deal with the burden of being release manager. (and
>>> unfortunately not even that, at times).
>>> I have 2 hour a day commute, and 3 children under 10 years old.  I
>>> barely have a handful of extra free hours to myself, let alone the
>>> many hours of time it takes to plan, code, and test a structure such
>>> as Maciej et. al have been working on.
>>
>> So the desire but no expression of such?
>
> You could say that.
> I'm not in the habit of saying, "this really sucks, and I have no time
> to make it better. Could someone else please spend days of work coding
> something to make my life easier?"
> :-}

Why not say that?  You could still communicate what are the biggest
issues and where to look to solve them.

Here's an example of a problem description:
http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/018341.html
(currently alleviated by memoizing GetPkgByPath in r14920)

Maciej


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