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On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:57 -0800, James Laslavic wrote: |
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> Next, I said that Gentoo is losing developers. Again, notice the amazing |
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> vanishing acts currently being performed at all levels of Gentoo. |
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Have you done any research to see if those that were responsible for the |
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lacking areas have resigned? I think you might be surprised to see they |
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are all still active. There were other reasons for all of it, none of it |
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due to a lack of devs, or losing people. |
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> The last thing I want to say is that I did have a lot of trust in the |
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> Gentoo world, |
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Hmm, then why are you running Gentoo still? :) |
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> but again, just take a look at this past year. |
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And what has technical gone wrong with the project as a whole? You have |
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pointed out 1 technical shortcoming, no second release in 08. But their |
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were logical delays there. Given some of the technical issues with |
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2007.0, subsequent releases got more QA and thus delays. |
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GWN was a lack of articles, call for help went out repeatedly. No devs |
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stepped up, nor users, so no GWN. |
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Foundation is another matter, but neither devs or users gave a crap. |
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People can say they do, but look at this list archives, and the lack of |
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traffic over the past year. Did anyone really care that does now? Of |
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those that say they care, did anyone do anything? Everyone can only |
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blame themselves. Which most all devs have done and we are past it and |
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on to solving the problem. |
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snip... |
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> We can blame DistroWatch |
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> for the negative attention all we want, but just dismissing everything |
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> and saying that it all came out of nowhere is not encouraging. |
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Is any of that negativity technical related? I see no one talking about |
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our technical shortcomings or failures as a project. Which the project |
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is quite healthy. |
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snip.. |
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> But until then, a lot of us feel like |
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> there is no other plan to trust in anyway. |
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Trust the code or don't. It's all open source, so there for you to see. |
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If you trust the code, then you should trust those writing it, and other |
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decisions they might make. The rest is some what moot. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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