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The problem I found with this "Project" is that when you had a good idea |
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and you wanted to get it going, people had too many negative things to |
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say or just too much to say and not put any work into it all all. Too |
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many chefs scenario. re: Gentoo Customised Desktop. |
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James |
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(i386) |
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 00:47 +0200, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> Kyle Smith <smithkm@××××××××.edu> said: |
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> > If g-d-r is terminated, what happens to the subprojects (specifically |
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> > the config tools)? Also dead, now that Gnome System Tools supports |
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> > Gentoo? |
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> > |
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> > I kinda wish I'd hung around more on #gentoo-desktop-research and found |
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> > some ways to contribute. Of all the Gentoo projects this was always the |
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> > one that interested me the most as any results would probably have a big |
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> > impact on the day-to-day usability of Gentoo. |
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> gentoo config tools project didn't start of the ground really. I'm still |
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> working on generic config library, I don't know what about others |
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> [...] |
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> > To address Paul DV's point: would this project be more likely to succeed |
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> > if different developers that didn't have as many commitments were put to |
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> > work on it? Maybe a new round of recruitment or something similar to |
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> > drum up interest? |
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> Well, I think I'm somehow responsible of the project dying. Maybe I didn't push |
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> things enough, or whatever. |
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> Anyway, restarting it might be an idea, but with another leader, it might have |
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> more chances to take off |
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> -- |
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> dams |
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