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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:49:39 +0100 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o> |
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:58:50PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > > * The wrong idea of what the user base is, and what the target |
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> > > > user base is. Gentoo's direction is too heavily influenced by a |
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> > > > small number of extremely noisy ricer forum users, many of whom |
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> > > > don't even run Gentoo. Unfortunately, this self-perpetuating |
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> > > > clique wields huge amounts of influence. |
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> > > |
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> > > I was certain that Gentoo's direction was influenced by the people |
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> > > working on Gentoo; not ricers. Do you have any examples of when |
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> > > the ricers changed the direction of things in Gentoo. |
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> > |
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> > Sunrise is the canonical example. Also consider the way the forums |
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> > are being run (like it or not, the forums are taken by many to be |
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> > representative of Gentoo's user base)... |
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> Drop your theories about the forums from this list please, it's |
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> really far OT and creating a quite unproductive atmosphere. |
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Well no, that's the point. If we're discussing Gentoo's problems, as |
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some people wish, we might as well discuss them... It's hardly a sane |
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way of approaching things to say "Ok, we're having an honest discussion |
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about how to fix Gentoo, but you can't talk about x, y or z"... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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