Thanks

[Zbigniew Łuszpiński]

> Hi,
>
> well, my english is a bit bad - So i probably don't understand whats the
> meaning here
>
> I think it is okay, to write "submitted by xxx" but copyrights/mailadresses
> and stuff like that isn't important Because Bugfixes help and everything
> else should go via the Lunar mailinglist, so that every developer or every
> user can help - Not only the Author of a Module.

I do not agree. Why bothering lots of people with e.g. little error like 
spelling mistake in module description or new version. Drop a mail to 
maintainer and he will fix it. If maintainer can not handle it he will ask on 
mailing list, forum or will post bug with better descripion and diagnose than 
any newbie could write.

> I Understand that Authors 
> want there "name" there. i want this too. But it's not important, important
> is that every user can submit, every user can help and every user can
> fix/change/edit an module. Otherwise we don't need an Open Source
> Distribution and i thought Lunar is Open Source ;-)

My first though was to help developers. They do not always have time to answer 
all my questions. (And I'm very lunar knowledge hungry). You can send 
anything but it will take ages to wait for reaction: again lack of time, not 
bad will.

> Well it's better to have a 'direct' contact to the module author cause of
> updates and stuff like that, but it's not important in my humble opinion.

Fresh updates and lots of modules - this people like. The great lunar scripts 
are very important but in my opinion modules make lunar strong (on 
workstations and at especially home).

> If my english was to broken/bad ask perldude to translate it :^P
>
> Modules are for all of us, it' doesn't matter if there's a module from
> sofar, from wdp, or from zbiggy.

From user point of view maybe it doesn't matter. From developer point of view 
it does. Why bothering everybody on the mailing list about update of one 
module? Drop message to contributor who made module to update and thats all. 
I'm sure contributor will do this faster than overworked developer who have 
other more important things to do. There is big difference between me 
(zbiggy) and sofar. Sofar is almost everywhere (I afraid to open can :-)), 
does big work  and I only posted few modules and a patch. And you also want 
sofar to update and fix everything. Man be human let live developers.

greetz,
zbiggy

> greets
> jean (wdp)
>
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 00:57:12 +0200
>
> Zbigniew _uszpi_ski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Thanks for importing 2 (of 7 sent by me) modules to lunar in May. Thanks
> > also for importing the -freorder-blocks patch I sent earlier. I would be
> > very grateful if you stop removing my name and/or e-mail address from
> > pieces of work I send.
> >
> > The name of the author and his e-mail address is very important part of
> > source code or modules. It allows users to contact directly author if
> > they have some questions or bug reports. Thanks to this forums or
> > bugreports are not junked and other people are not bothered. The reaction
> > is also faster because the e-mails are read more often than forum
> > messages.
> >
> > Everything I do for lunar is made in free time as a kind of hobby. I only
> > have satisfaction, nothing more. Making my work anonymous you are simply
> > demotivating me and make me sad.
> >
> > Please remember about copyrights. If something is free in using/copying
> > etc. does not mean that nobody make it.
> >
> > I can not understand why removing author's address or name, e.g. the
> > maintainer address in modules is to help development, it should not be
> > removed - this is not obstacle. I can not understand why it takes so long
> > importing new modules to moonbase. Everything I sent was complete and
> > working, posted in form expected by developers.
> >
> > I see that many modules in lunar are made by anonymous people. I browse
> > Internet looking for updates and could drop a mail to maintainer if I
> > have known maintainer's e-mail address usually displayed by lvu
> > maintainer <module> command.
> >
> > Please do not flame this post. I try to improve things which look wrong
> > in my opinion. If there is special reason for anonymizing lunar tell me
> > because now I have no idea.
> >
> > greetings,
> > zbiggy
>
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