maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Abiword, Gnumeric for ITOS 2006

	frethop	2006-08-01 , 22:52
	Posts: 283 \| Thanked: 60 times \| Joined on Nov 2005 @ It's dark in here. I hear laughing.	#25

I'll stab at this one more time. Maybe I can say what I wanted to say the first time.

And excuse me, but telling someone that, if they can't contribute, they should shut up and be grateful, is just plainly despicable.

I said this, so I'll explain it. I consider lots of things contributions: coding, commenting, discussing, feedback, and feature requests are among them. However, this line, which got me started on this thread is not any of the above:

Does somebody know what actually is the problem why these two programs don't get ported to ITOS 2006?

It's not contributive; it's just whining. Worse: it's complaining and rather accusatory. My point: if this is how you are going to contribute, then just be quiet. It's not helping.

I'm an open source developer. I write open source contributions on several different platforms. For a certain app I have written, it's been almost 2 months since the last release. I just can't get the time to put the features into it I want. If someone were to ask me what my problem is in cranking out that next version, I would say what I said above: just be quiet, you are not helping.

I'm grateful to all those who have contributed to the software collection for the 770. I use Maemo Mapper all the time! But I'm not kidding myself: if gnuite were to stop working on it, I'd have to be happy with the current version and be quiet, because I'm not a Bluetooth programmer. gnuite has no obligation to me.

I'll restate my original point. Be encouraging and have some patience. Hopefully, the software you want will be here. ...Hopefully...

-F

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