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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:32 +0000, Nelson Batalha wrote: |
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> You're very much right. Only I didn't demand anything cause right now I |
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> don't the time to learn python and submit, I was just replying to the new |
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> emails. Never crossed my mind to demand anything from a oss project :P, I |
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> just wanted to know if it was ok&feasable. |
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Just for clarification, I never thought you were demanding anything. As |
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for your idea, it is definitely feasible, but not something I would |
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*ever* want to implement. As much as you say it would be useful, I see |
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it as a waste of *my* time, because it will encourage people to fiddle |
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with their caches, and those people will be coming here, asking for |
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help/support. What this means is that so long as I not only develop, |
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but also *support* catalyst, I won't add anything that provides Release |
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Engineering with no additional useful functionality but only serves to |
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reduce my own availability for working on actual bugs. As much as I can |
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see the needs of the casual/one-time user, I'm not designing a system |
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catered to them. I think catalyst is too high of a learning curve |
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already for a casual/one-time user, so I'd rather teach them the "right" |
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way to go about using the tool if they have to do that much learning |
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already. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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