Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed

[Steve Dawes]

It has nothing to do with RedHat's policies. It is simply the fact that you
have made a statement about the kernel supplied with the latest
distribution, and then you avoid fully answering any questions that spawn
from your statement.

Oh yeah, another thing, if you want to use profanity in your messages to me,
I don't mind. All I ask is that you spell it correctly. Damn has m n at the
end of it and is not spelt with two m's. That said, there may be others that
do mind, so be mindful to their feelings if you need to use them.


Steve Dawes
Calgary Canada.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:39 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed


It's quite clear you think Red Hat should have a different policy. Take
it up with them. I really don't give a damm about that.

Dawes, Stephen writes:
> Yes you have answered that portion of the question, but you refuse to
answer the question about where in the rpm naming convention does it tell me
where the level of patching is indicated. You have said that the kernel is a
2.6.11 kernel that has a number of patches that makes it appear to be a
2.6.12 kernel. So do you or don't you know where it tells this information
in the rpm naming convention and where exactly it is located in the
kernel-2.6.11-1.136_FC4.i686.rpm name.
>
> There is an old cliché that goes something like, "if it walks like a duck,
looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Well, as I
said a long while back, if it looks like kernel-2.6.12, and it acts like
kernel 2.6.12, then don't call it something that it isn't as fedora has
done.
>
> Janina, I have noticed something about the way in which you answer
questions over the years. That is that you don't answer the entire question,
but that you only answer the portion of the question that you feel like.
This approach only provides partial information, and often is not what the
requestor is looking for. You wrote that you maintain the fedora speakup
modified howto, and for the work you do on this document it is good.
However, your howto is only an installation document, and when people want
to go beyond the information provided you start to get defensive and call
their quest for information things like idle speculation. Janina, what is
idle information is partial answers like the ones that you are in the habit
of providing to peoples questions.
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> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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