Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee from Intrepid repository not up to date

[Max Battcher <me worldmaker net>]

On 1/8/2010 19:59, bornagainpenguin wrote:
> > You're welcome to help maintain the Hardy and Intrepid bits if you feel
> sidelined or ignored.
>
> Really?  And what if I am not a programmer?  What if I'm merely a prodigious
> end-user whose managed to slowly learn enough about Linux, FOSS, *NIX, etc
> to run his desktop?  What then?

You've jumped to a conclusion here that the original post did not 
warrant-- you don't necessarily need to be a programmer to contribute to 
maintaining builds for older platforms. Sometimes all build maintenance 
requires is someone with a) the platform, b) the time, and c) basic 
command line knowledge with good IRC, Mailing List and 
Bugzilla/Launchpad usage and communication skills.

Because its a community effort, whatever skills (or even money) you have 
the time and the patience to lend can be used to affect the changes that 
you wish to make. Free software is a misnomer (regardless of the FSF's 
opinion on the matter) in that it still requires just as much hard work, 
effort, time, and patience as any other software. (…and programming 
remains only one facet in a larger ecology of skills required to make 
good software.)

If you've managed to become a "prodigious end-user" of Linux, you 
probably have enough skills in some of those areas to contribute 
something of value to the community, if that were your desire to do so. 
If you have the time and patience, I would encourage you to lend those 
to this project.

I'm not "on the team" and have no official weight to any of my words, 
whatsoever. I hope, however, that you can see the message I'm trying to 
get across as a friendly neutral appeal for you to take a step back from 
your current attempt at discourse, give things a little patience, and 
attempt to see what you can positively contribute to further discussion 
and/or this community at large.

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--Max Battcher--
http://worldmaker.net