On 7 Jul 97 at 17:38, Santeri Paavolainen <Santeri Paavolainen
<santtu_at_iki.fi>> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote:
> > To those who only complain, why don't you help in cleaning it up
> > instead of begroaning it! If you are so dissaticfied, then leave!
> > You do not have to try to get everyone else mad about fvwm. That
> > only causes people not to try to work with it and fix it up. If you
> > refuse to be helpful, then just be quite!
>
> Oh, this is so contributing way to respond to critique.
>
> Mmm, let me think of the options:
>
> - Let's pretend there's nothing wrong with FVWM.
>
> or
>
> - Let's accept the fact that FVWM is quality-wise not something you
> want to show to students (to put it mildly).
>
> and then what we could do next, in respective order:
>
> - See how people jump the ship and bail to emerging window managers
> (that have a clean code base)
>
> or
>
> - Do something about it.
>
> We can either have denial, and start another wm war, or admittance,
> critique and progress. Can you guess which camp the "respond hostilely
> to all critic" belongs to?
>
> (I know I am overly sarcastic.)
Sorry, but I was not trying to respond hostilely to all critics, just
whiners that never contribute but just whine all the day long!
I love critics, but to be a true critic one has to suggest a plan of
action that will help resolve the issue. If they do not plan to
help, then they are just whiners!
If you want to help, great! I would love to, but I have to work for
a living and do not have the time (or probably the expertise). I
have contributed one small module that I do not know if anyone is
using (there seems to be no positive feedback on this list, just
whiners!).
Sorry. A of the posts caught me in a bad mood after listening to
people just whining all the time at work! It is never productive to
whine! Please, offer suggestion to get things working. Like
instead of one maintainer, split the tasks up like the Debian group
does among many maintainers. Many maintainers of different parts of
the code might make it harder to organize everything, but it might
keep one person from getting worked to death!
Richard A. Guay
Network Administrator and ASIC Design Engineer
ASIC International Inc.
rag_at_asicint.com
http://www.asicint.com
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Received on Mon Jul 07 1997 - 09:56:55 BST