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So, what's the verdict then? Is there enough of a push behind this to |
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get a GLEP going? If so, who is to write it? Let's get this going, if we |
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can. I'd sure love to see a gentoo 'planet'... As well as a list of |
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gentoo events in my area! (Jeez I'm a geek). |
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Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:54:31AM +0200, foser wrote: |
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>>The most useful part besides the news page for anyone really following |
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>>the gnome project is the planet page, it creates a sense of community by |
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>>allowing devs to interact in public & keep them up-to-date on what |
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>>everyone is working on. Yes, there's also some personal stuff posted |
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>>there, but that actually brings the developer closer as a person. It's a |
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>>plus for the devs & the users alike. |
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> I agree with foser. In many people's eyes (including mine) Gentoo is far |
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> more than "just a software project". It is an entire community which |
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> embraces a lot more than just the development of Portage, our packages, |
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> porting, documentation and infrastructure (and everything else I might have |
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> forgotten). |
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> Having a planet for Gentoo developers gives us the opportunity to show our |
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> users that we are all human with our own interests. I find it myself very |
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> interesting when I discover that a colleague of mine loves to play squash as |
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> well as it allows me to - when we ever come across each other - propose to |
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> play a game. It's even more interesting when I discover that a colleague |
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> shares interests in other aspects so that we might want to start off a new |
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> project. |
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> Some users even like the idea of knowing what the interests are of the |
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> developers, where they live, what they do besides making their Gentoo |
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> experience the best they can. And even if the amount of such users is |
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> relatively small (say 1% - which is a very low estimation) it is large in |
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> absolute numbers (we *do* have an enormous user base). |
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> And it's not like it will be part of our policy that you add your stuff to |
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> that site. It's only for the interested developers who want to share their |
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> personal stuff. I believe that, when there are more than a couple of these |
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> developers _and_ infra can support it, then we should at least try it. |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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Hasan Khalil <gongloo@g.o> |
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