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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On 9/20/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Well, now it's gotten to the point where people are being sneaky and |
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>> underhanded |
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>> about this whole thing. Stuart (I believe) said that they had talked |
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>> to members |
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>> of releng about this, but the truth seems to be that Stuart talked |
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>> with rocket |
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>> and Xen support in stages and some random user associated with this |
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>> project |
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>> talked to plasmaroo about using catalyst for stage4 builds. |
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> Could you be a little more polite about our users _please_? There was |
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> a day when I was just "some random user", just as there was for you |
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> and everyone else who is, or has been, a Gentoo dev. |
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By "some random user", I meant that plasmaroo had absolutely no idea that he was |
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associated with this Gentoo project that you announced this morning. It was not |
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an insult against our users. |
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> Here's one thing I don't get. We have a project (Gentoo Seeds), which |
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> is attracting interest and volunteers both from inside the Gentoo dev |
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> ranks and (especially) outside. Granted, it's not a lot of people, |
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> but interest is always welcome. Assuming we go on, and are successful |
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> in establishing a sustainable project, that translates into extra |
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> folks working on releases (and fresh eyes to boot). It might only be |
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> one or two people, but that's still one or two people more than what |
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> we had midnight last Sunday. |
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> Given all the complaints from releng in general (and Chris in |
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> particular) about there not being _enough_ folks working on releases, |
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> isn't this a _great_ opportunity for releng to recruit some |
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> additional, motivated folks to help solve that problem? Can't you see |
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> that? |
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The help Releng needs is with *testing*. We've got building covered just fine. |
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> How much of a dent in this opportunity do you think this afternoon's |
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> outpouring has made? How many folks, reading what you've said (and |
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> what you've ignored), will still feel motivated to consider maybe |
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> moving on to releng in the future? |
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> Could you have a think about that, and re-consider the unnecessary |
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> hostility and unjustified accusations that you're filling this thread |
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> with? |
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Unjustified accusations? Can you point out one "unjustified accusation" I've made? |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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