Re: offtopic (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:34, Curtis Napier wrote:
> I don't mind gay jokes, I love gay jokes. I DO mind the constantly
> saying "That's gay" as a put down. You obviously mean it to be demeaning
> like being gay is "Less than", something to be laughed at or something.

and you obviously "dont get it" so no point in furthering this

> > i'm assuming you're referring to Bug 131943 ... which wasnt filed by you
> > or assigned to you ... looks like a general documentation bug to me
> >
> > since the about page was pretty much neutered of any relevant Gentoo
> > structure
> > information, my closing of it was pretty logical
>
> Difference in interpretation I suppose. It was assigned to "Website
> www.gentoo.org". I'm www.gentoo.org (along with some other people). I
> think of it the same way you think of the games herd. Not that it's
> "Your's" but if someone were to randomly come along and close game bugs
> that they had nothing previously to do with and that wasn't in the games
> herd, wouldn't you get a little miffed? Especially if they made a remark
> that seemed to you to be rude when they closed it?

except that i'm a [minor] member of the documentation herd and the about page 
has historically fallen into the combined domain of both the website and 
documentation herds

> I never said the website "Belonged to me".

you didnt say "Belong to me", but your heavy usage of words like "my" and "me" 
implies differently.  as to whether that's how you really feel, i have no 
idea.

> However, I am on the team
> that is working on it so I have a personal connection to it. Not that
> that makes it "Mine" in any way but I do feel protective of it just like
> I'm sure you feel about E17 or any of your other projects.

your mind set is clearly different from my own ... the work i do isnt "my" 
work, it's work that is part of a bigger community of which i'm simply a drop 
in the bucket, whether it be the games herd or the toolchain herd or the e17 
project or whatever else happens to catch my fancy these days

i dont ever recall referring to any of these things as "mine" ... if i do, 
feel free to correct me and be sure to point out that there are many other 
people who matter a hell of a lot more than myself ... unless of course it 
*is* something i am the sole developer of (there are one or two 
unfortunately)

> I'm sorry if I changed the pages without asking first. That's what this
> all boils down too. I got sick of looking at that poster and was making
> a change to the way the headers worked anyway (in conjunction with
> neysx) so I just changed it. I didn't ask first and neysx didn't know
> anything about it. I did post a news item though, I didn't just secretly
> change it and not say anything.

that's sort of the point of the gentoo-dev mailing list

> So I'm asking now, if I figure out a cool way to work Larry into the
> "Classic" design can I take down the poster? Or at the very least change
> the poster to type and just use the little Larry logo? Please? I'm
> begging you? With whipped cream and a cherry?

if he appears on the about page somewhere i'm happy with filing the poster 
away into the 'wallpapers' section
-mike
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