Subj : Re: BunsenLabs Linux
To   : Gamgee
From : Richard Falken
Date : Wed Jun 03 2020 18:40:14

 G> What "communication problems" are you referring to?

 G> A followup: How has that hurt the distribution?
 
Hello,
 
See those times when there is a "holyday" going on and no patches are submitted for packages known to need the patches? It is not frequent but package updates have gotten quiet for certain timespans in the past. I
know of people who switched certain systems not because of this, but because the lack of explanation casted doubt on the usefulness of the distribution as a tool.
 
The lack of an official roadmap for the release cycle is a bit troublesome for administrators who are not targetting -current. I have already heard of administrators who needed feature X that was in -current but not in-stable for date Y... they didn't know when the new Slackware release would be served, they didn't want to shoehorn the feature locally, and they didn't want to move to -current... Uncertainity is bad for people who work on a schedule and in the end of the day people switches to distributions that have predictable roadmaps.
 
Also, for some reason, lots of people keep asking if Slackweare is a dead project, which in itself suggests its presentation as a distribution is giving people weird ideas. That is bad for adoption and hence the ability of the distribution to raise funds and gather collaborators. As you may know, there is a lot of dark gossip regarding the finantial status of the whole thing.
This gossip never seems to die.
 

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