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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:00:37 +0000 George Prowse |
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<cokehabit2003@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| I agree. Relations between users and Gentoo developers could be *alot* |
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| better. There seems an air of unapproachability, even elitism, from |
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| the development camp and it was only when I started helping in |
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| #gentoo-uk, organising events and became an AT that this became |
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| better. |
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You could look at it the other way around, too. |
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| Too few developers use the forums, they are usually the first stop for |
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| the beginners who have problems. Usually their problem can be fixed |
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| by a revdep-rebuild or modules-update but most developers (apart from |
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| Uberlord/Genone/Klieber) seem to stay away from it like the plague. |
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Perhaps you should consider *why* this is the case. There are plenty of |
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changes that could be made to the forums that would make them much less |
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inaccessible to developers. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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