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Regardless of the points being made or their validity, this is the |
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long-standing problem with Gentoo: excessive pride and ego and too |
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little inability to cooperate internally, much less externally. Too |
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many people are treating every discussion (turned argument) as |
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life-or-death and are unwilling to concede anything. Sometimes you |
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have to say, "I disagree, but not enough to make waves about it." |
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This is why we've been bleeding old-guard developers (the quiet ones |
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that got stuff done and didn't flame) for months and not gaining the |
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people that carefully examine an environment before they commit. Some |
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people just want to quietly go about their business and Do Things |
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Right, not trudge through hundred-fatwa threads detailing the latest |
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technical-turned-personal 'discussion'. For those of you doing the |
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dev thing for CV points: which will your future employer appreciate |
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more, fifty pseudo-technical flames or a few highly-informative |
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documentation posts? A dozen new packages or a 20MB IRC log detailing |
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what you hate about infra member $foo? |
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Get over yourselves. Please. |
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