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foser <foser@g.o> said: |
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> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 19:37 +0000, James William Dumay wrote: |
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> > Dams (& Friends), |
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> > This is the kind of thing we want to work on. It would be nice to get |
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> > Gentoos blessing with the project. foser, this isnt a replacement of the |
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> > vanilla gentoo/gnome desktop, its just an overlaying bunch of ebuilds |
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> > that will make the existing system a little more polished for the |
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> > desktop users (and people doing rollouts in organisations). |
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> I know what it is and i've gone over this before why i think it is a bad |
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> idea, I'm not going to repeat myself. Actually, the intial proposal mail |
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> in my opinion already lacks so much insight I can't take it very |
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> seriously. |
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> I wonder why everyone is so enchanted by these kind of mails. There are |
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> so many rough spots in Gentoo and the gnome specific parts of it and |
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> they never get much non-dev attention. It seems like it all needs to be |
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> some high profile project to get any volunteers, that's really the thing |
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> that bothers me here. |
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> The building is as strong as it's base. What I miss most in the bmg |
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> attitude is the will to actually improve Gentoo the distro, it's all |
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> about the coolness factor and little about what needs to be done to get |
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> it right. And no, that isn't always the job that gets much attention. |
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I - surprisily - agree with you. |
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But I had this idea in mind : if people that do this "coolness" stuff could : |
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- agree on precises goal/tasks |
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- develop it The Good Way (tm) |
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- keep it as an addon, to achieve a particular goal |
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Then it will become somehting different of the "just cool, badly coded, |
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useless" stuff. |
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The goal of the idea is to provide ready to use, customized and polished and |
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professional looking desktop for hobyists, and small companies. (Note that |
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"professional looking" doesn't mean anything, it's a buz word). |
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Now, the first thing to discuss is: do we want/need this for gentoo? Even if |
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it's an addon, etc ? |
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If the answer is yes, then we can try to describe the environment it should be |
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coded in, the qa and verification. That would avoid the "only coolness" effect. |
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wdyt ? |
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dams |
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