On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > If you're not able to maintain > your packages properly and in a timely manner, and your holding up a > major part of the distribution, it's your fault.
I'm interested in this. Individuals differ greatly in their working methods. So what is considered: "in a timely manner"? (Seriously.) I have dropped out of several co-operative projects in the past simply because I'm a relatively "slow" worker -- i.e. I don't tend to give three or four fast responses to collective development _in the same day_. I find that sort of speed of progression highly de-motivating. Am I alone in this? (I might take up to a week to respond to any particular event -- this is normal for _me_.) I'm curious as to what the expectations of other debian-developers are -- for example, does not being online 24/7 -- or even once a day -- effectively create a barrier to participation in collective development projects in debian? (Theory would say: No. But what does _practical_ experience dictate?) So I guess my question really is: what is "timely"; and what is "untimely"? Where is it defined? By whom? Does it make sense? Just curious. msw -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://startext.demon.co.uk/ GPG pub key:8D6B948B ECC6 D98E 4CC8 60E3 7E32 D594 BB27 3368 8D6B 948B - Share your knowledge. It's a way of achieving immortality. -
