[maemo-developers] Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

[From: Robin Burchell]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> wrote:
>> Did you miss the thread asking for bugs wrt packaging to be fixed,
>> which was met with crickets?
>
> Where was this?

Two references:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-March/025100.html
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-March/025344.html

There were other discussions on IRC, I believe. I can't dig those up as easily.

>> [1]: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9494
>> [2]: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9608
>
> To be fair these bugs are two weeks[1] and 4 days[2] old. You can't expect
> instant fixes to these things. Work is being done, sometimes takes a while
> because of the amount of work there is to do.

I'm not pointing fingers or blame for things not getting resolved the
moment the pin drops, I appreciate that these things take time.

The central point to me, here, is that it seems like the communication
involved here has been sub-par, as a result, the frustrations involved
have boiled over and extras seems to have lost a contributor. This, to
me, is senseless, as better communication about the status of this
should have been able to help prevent it - yet none seems to have been
forthcoming.