Tuesday, October 18, 2005

new Xerces-c and Xalan-c builds and openSUSE mailinglist

I have done new Xerces-c and Xalan-c builds for SUSE Linux 10.0 to replace the earlier builds built with an early beta of 10.0.

The discussions on the main openSUSE mailing list seem to become more and more obscure. Actually I have expected that because the members of the list are just too inhomogeneous ranging from qualified developers and packagers to users that seemingly can't even read the messages on the screen. Currently I can see three directions where this list might go:

1. The lazy users scare away most of the qualified people by repeating the same stupid questions that where discussed or explained even multiple times.

2. The qualified people stop answering simple questions and thus scare away the user community.

3. The list becomes a noise-only list containing only flame wars with no content at all.

Let's hope that some groups of people move to more specialized sublists before the main list gets too crappy.

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