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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:20:26
Message-Id: 20100619222010.12b601b8@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo by Ben de Groot
1 On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:03:31 +0200
2 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3 > That is an incredibly shortsighted and cynic look at the community.
4 > Keep it off this list.
5
6 I consider that remark disrespectful. By rejecting comments in such an
7 impolite manner, and without explaining why you think the comment is
8 incorrect, you are poisoning the development atmosphere and making
9 Gentoo a hostile place for contributors.
10
11 > Not at all. Instead of wasting time on flamewars, and people getting
12 > upset and leaving because of the attacks, we'd have a bunch of people
13 > who would know how to work together in a friendly way. That speeds up
14 > the process to come to technical improvements. Once again: keep your
15 > cynic, twisted look off this list. We have no use for it.
16
17 I would like to know how well that process is working when it comes to
18 delivering EAPI 4. Or, you know... Anything else for that matter...
19
20 > There already is a distro that works like you envision it. It's called
21 > Exherbo. You should try it, you might like it. I would suggest you
22 > spend your time and energy on that, and leave Gentoo to do things the
23 > friendlier way.
24
25 That's not very friendly of you. I take it being friendly only applies
26 to other friendly people, and that the second anyone loses their
27 friendliness badge all your friends have to jump on them and tell them
28 to go away?
29
30 --
31 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>