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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Do you really think people would voluntarily use it? That's an honest question, maybe people are fair enough to do it, but I have serious doubts about it. It's of no use if people have to be told to move threads from -dev to that new list. |
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Most of what I wrote was tongue-in-cheek, but the point was that -dev is far too |
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often filled with non-technical issues that ultimately result into flame wars of |
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the likes that'd humble mighty Troy herself. It is also our primary list for |
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discussion of all-things gentoo, and so the -dev moniker doesn't even really fit |
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right now. |
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By separating the technical and non-technical, and allowing people to |
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voluntarily subscribe to the -politics one or not (since -dev is basically a |
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requirement for devship), My hope is that -dev finally gets back on track as |
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being purely technical. That is, PMS discussions, ebuild additions/removals, |
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new developer intros, why quoting variables like ${S} is safer than not quoting |
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them in ebuilds, questions about bash-fu, and so on. These belong on -dev. |
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The rest, the non-technical, can go elsewhere, IMHO, and people are free to |
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subscribe to it if they wish to participate in the discussions there or not. I |
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myself would likely stay off that list, because I care more about technical |
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things. I live ~30mi outside of the DC Beltway; I get enough politics as it is. |
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Think about it -- I'm 30mi away from Wolf Blitzer. Scary stuff man. |
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--Kumba |
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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