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From: Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:21:40
Message-Id: 4512F015.7070005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects by Simon Stelling
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4 Simon Stelling wrote:
5 > Grant Goodyear wrote:
6 >> If we
7 >> (being Gentoo) say that we're going to do something, and then things
8 >> fall through, it might make us look bad, after all.
9 >
10 > Maybe it's just me being stupid, but what exactly do we have to loose?
11 > (This is a serious question, I'd appreciate serious answers.)
12 >
13 Well, I'd probably say. The respect of others both in and out of the
14 open source community.
15
16 Secondarily I'd say that we lose a bit of the corporate ready
17 appearance that some are working towards (which I don't oppose).
18
19 Third, we lose the respect of each other in the project. Seriously,
20 its not something to be thought of lightly. If a project you announce
21 fails, people will remember oh Simon started so and so, and it failed
22 utterly.
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24 /me considers these to be serious replies ^.^;; <--the face however
25 isn't *wink*
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