Interesting comments

[John Summerfield]

Adam Williamson wrote:
>

>>
>> Mentors should, I think, be encouraged to ask, "Why?"  rather than 
>> assert "that's wrong."
>>
>> Why do you think that?
>> Have you considered...?
> 
> Yeah, on a case-by-case basis I've been encouraging new triagers to get
> in touch with the maintainers of the components they're triaging. In
> general it's a good principle to have a decent working relationship with
> the maintainers.

That's all good.

Are communications private, or public? Being publick would be beneficial 
when a triager moves on, maybe being promoted package maintainer, and/or 
someone else becomes involved as the new triager.

Also, some could be good examples for training. I had problems with 
2.6.25 kernels, reported a bug (several maybe, but I'm thinking of one 
in particular). I reported it against the kernel, someone changed it to 
mkinitrd and I explained why I thought that was wrong.

I also spent(wasted) a lot of time building alternative kernels and 
testing them and trying to make the initrd stop at sensible places.

nash is a royal pain.


And that, Kevin K if you're listening, is why I'm not willing to spend 
even more time futzing around with Linux trying to make it do what I 
want to do, instead of doing what I want to do.





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John

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