[gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

[Ryan Hill]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:22:33 -0600 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com>
> | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> | > Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list?
> |
> | You know, that was a completely unnecessary personal attack.  God
> | forbid anyone take the time to attempt something they think may be
> | beneficial to the community.  If you in all your elitist wisdom think
> | you can do better then try helping out.  If not, then please fuck off.
>
> Good intentions and trying to be helpful don't keep users or
> developers. Screwups lose users and developers.
>
> Would you stick a bunch of war evacuees on a plane piloted by Britney
> Spears if she said she was doing it because she wanted to be helpful?

Britney Spears being the Sunrise Developers and the evacuees being.. a bunch of 
packages that have no relevance whatsoever since they're copies of ebuilds 
already in bugzilla?  When Britney crashes and burns the ebuilds aren't 
vapourized into a fine red mist.  If Sunrise bombs we're back to the status quo 
with nothing lost.

> | > Even that aside, if a couple of hundred developers can't handle
> | > doing QA for all those maintainer-wanted ebuilds, what makes you
> | > think four people can?
> |
> | If a couple of hundred developers actually paid any attention
> | whatsoever to maintainer-wanted ebuilds then there wouldn't have to
> | be any such project in the first place.
>
> A couple of hundred developers can barely handle the main tree...

True.  Some of them want to focus on the nastier bits of it though.  Why should 
we stop them?

Hostility aside, do you have any alternate ideas?


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