Re: [gentoo-dev] Good Work, Lads!

[Sean]

Yet another THANK YOU! for the Gentoo-dev crowd. I too am one of the
shadow mailing list lurkers that delete 80% of the messages that get
dropped into my Gentoo folder. While I may delete the majority, the
minority that have survived the delete key have been invaluable. 

Coming from the Debian distribution, I had a good sense of how Linux
systems worked, but I do feel that since I've been using Gentoo that I
have gained a far better grasp of the foundation level aspects of what
makes up a Linux distribution. Who knows if I'll ever use this for
anything "worthwhile", but the learning experience is nothing but pure
enjoyment, and that itself makes it worth my while.

I'll not drone on any longer .... just wanted to toss in my 2c and give
a huge THANK YOU to all that have helped create such a superb
distribution. You all have my gratitude and appreciation.

Sean

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:39, Stroller wrote:
> Since installing Gentoo I've been intending to learn enough bash to start
> writing ebuilds, but somehow haven't managed to get around to it. I've been
> reading gentoo-dev all that time, a couple of months now, although I've
> rarely posted. I guess I'm an enthusiastic end-user, who has learned &
> benefited much since first installing Gentoo.
>
> With the flurry of posting over the last couple of days, I think it's a good
> opportunity for me to say:
> WELL DONE, ALL THE GENTOO DEVS. A DAMN GOOD JOB YOU'VE MADE OF A DISTRO.
>
> Although I rarely contribute myself, I keep seeing the same topics coming up
> here again & again:
>   How about a different front-end / GUI for Portage or installation?
>   How can we improve on the /usr/portage file tree?
>   How about better descriptions?
>   How about binaries..?
>   This doesn't work for me. How do I fix it?
>   When will 1.4 be ready?
>
> With many of these questions, I can see that the helpful folks making the
> suggestions haven't been subscribed to this list as long as I have, and I
> can imagine it must be frustrating for the devs to have to say: "Well, we've
> talked about that, we're working on it, just bear with us and we'll get it
> done as soon as we can".
>
> It must be a bummer for you guys when folks post "why don't we do it
> differently", when they haven't undertaken large projects (I personally have
> no concept of what is involved, but can only hazard a guess) and may not be
> around in 3 months saying: "well, you remember that big suggestion I made a
> while back... here's it is for you, the result of hours of work, ready to be
> incorporated into the tree".
>
> I personally don't give a damn when 1.4 is "released" (although I appreciate
> others comments that it'll be a milestone for the Gentoo), and I would
> imagine the mention of it in recent threads might be quite frustrating for
> the devs; I can imagine that end-users asking when 1.4 will be ready is like
> them saying "I don't care about all the hard work that you're putting into
> this project, I'm interested in superficial stuff here".
>
> And for anyone who thinks that a desktop manager like KDE or Gnome is an
> essential part of a working Unix distribution... and that you "need"
> binaries for anything beyond stage 3... well, *cough*...  luxury!.. tch!..
> in my day we had to walk 3 miles in the snow, barefoot! We had to eat coal
> for breakfast, then install Irix before class. Tch! Don't know they're born,
> these kids with their fancy namby-pamby frambuffer logo'd bootable-CDs.
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to post & say that there are some of us (I am sure
> MANY of us) who aren't always so vocal, but who think that the Gentoo
> development team are doing a great job. I think Gentoo is *exactly* on track
> & focussed in the right direction.
>
> Any time I see a good suggestion made here, I know that it's the sort of
> thing that he dev team treat seriously, and which will be incorporated into
> Gentoo, just as soon as other priorities are settled.
>
> Many thanks, guys,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
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