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Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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> On 02/22/15 12:08, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: |
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>> * Fun is lost for a long time. |
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> This is is extremely false. |
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It's a very subjective matter. I don't doubt that Gentoo is fun for |
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some or many or even all developers. I also have no doubt that the |
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process of becoming a developer isn't fun for Nicolas. |
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The two are not mutually exclusive, and it's important to allow room |
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for both to exist, and focus on if and how things can change to be |
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even better for everyone involved. |
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Nicolas wrote a subjective email which was a little tongue-in-cheek, |
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in response to a request by a novice. It's important that there is |
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room for Nicolas to feel the way he does (must not say that he is |
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wrong in how he feels) *and* to also express it. |
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I personally also don't find Gentoo fun. It's interesting and |
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educational and powerful but not fun. |
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Using Gentoo's state-of-the-art tools I get to discover bugs nobody |
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has ever seen before, because I do something that nobody has done |
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before and (upstream) developers are either incompetent or lazy or |
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both. |
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Fixing problems caused by others is not fun, but at the end of the |
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day that is what open source really is all about. |
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//Peter |
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