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Community faults
Community faults
Posted Sep 26, 2007 14:59 UTC (Wed) by gravious (subscriber, #7662)In reply to: Community faults by nix
Parent article: My Fabulous Geek Career (O'ReillyNet)
Why don't you send them to a distro package maintainer and let them push them upstream? Or why not use Ubuntu's Launchpad to nudge them in the right direction by setting up projects or filing bugs with patches attached? I can code but I've never made patches larger than one or two lines per app and I think it's a shame that if you have some hacks that could be valuable for all that you'd keep them to yourself. Just a suggestion - you probably know all this judging from your LWN comments so ignore me if I'm being dumb.
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Community faults
Posted Sep 26, 2007 15:40 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That's what I tend to do, but I have to get around to it. :)
(Also I've never really thought of using package maintainers for distros I don't use as upstream-intermediaries; it seems a sort of unjustified imposition on their time. But it's a good idea anyway and I may well do as you suggest.)