discuss: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
Subject:
Re: Dealing with poor maintenance by maintainers
From:
Ari Makela ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 2002 06:25:55 -0000
Message-Id: <20020516062018.GA19751@lagavulin.sappho.net>
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:07:01PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> Lampadas can be of some help, but it's no panacea. A good reviewer with
> technical knowledge of the topic can give a much more accurate rating
> than the typical reader.
I got a thougth. The author is, or at least should be, aware of the
shortcomings of his works. Maybe we should have some process of using
this knowledge.
For example, I am perfectly aware that of my HOWTOs Finnish HOWTO is of
reasonable quality but Euro Character mini HOWTO is not. I wrote the
latter because when I configured my own system I found it very hard to
find information on the subject and my lack of knowledge on X Windows
System does exactly help getting things correct.
> The best system of feedback (if the author
> responds) is the existing one where the reader clicks on the doc and
> gets to dialog directly with the author. The bug report system, which
> should be tied into lampadas, would be primarily for cases where the
> author doesn't respond (or make the corrections).
I slightly disagree. I don't much like email because I get tons of it.
Emails are too easily just forgotten. The nagging of Bugzilla helps.
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Ari Makela ####@####.#### http://arska.org/hauva/
"Sailing is, after all, a kind of grace, a kind of magic." - Phil Berman
