[Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: MAINTAINERS file

[Matthew Brush]

On 01/11/2012 05:13 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Am 10.01.2012 23:46, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>> On 01/07/2012 07:20 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>>> Le 07/01/2012 16:00, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
>>>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 23:42:39 +0100
>>>> Frank Lanitz<frank at frank.uvena.de>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> * What's the exact difference between Supported and Maintained? The
>>>>>> only difference I see is that "supported" has the word "paid" in the
>>>>>> description, but I doubt that most of us get paid for this in
>>>>>> particular, and I also doubt it changes anything on how good is the
>>>>>> support (hobby vs. job).
>>>>>
>>>>> My fault. I wanted to change this but missed it. I wanted to
>>>>> s/supported/paid for ... (Even I don't know anybody at the moment who
>>>>> is getting paid with Geany stuff ;) )
>>>>
>>>> I suggest to use paid instead of supported and change current usage of
>>>> supported to maintained.
>>>
>>> I'm still not sure what that fact someone is paid or not changes, but
>>> otherwise it looks fine and clearer to me.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Whether paid or volunteer, it's still "Maintained".
>>
>> I suggest dropping the "Paid" status altogether if no one has used it by
>> the time all the plugins' info is filled in.
>
> I disagree. Currently there might be no plugin maintainer being paid to
> work on a plugin, but:
> - this might change (...)
> - is something user should be able to see to resynch there demandings
> with reality.
>

Hehehe, well said. OK, it's not a big deal, though I still feel it's not 
very useful for Geany-Plugins.

> I'm reading e.g. support at pidgin mailing list and more than once a week I
> need to facepalm myself because of users don't understand they are not
> talking to some paid support. I really don't want to end up on Geany
> with such situation.
>

You aren't kidding! I was reading a bug report[1] on Pidgin's tracker a 
while back about the auto-sizing of a text box or something and the tone 
was absolutely incredible, including demands, threats, name-calling and 
much more. I couldn't work on a project like Pidgin with so many 
disrespectful users.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush

[1] I think it was: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986