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So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the flames burn |
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bright enough to have earned a star designation from the IAU. Given what's been |
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going on lately, and with calls from myself and others (i.e., mcummings) to get |
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back on track and actually like, you know, develop something, I think it's high |
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time we create this list ourselves. |
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What goes on it?, why the flames of course. Every last ember, hot coal, glowing |
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developers, and any kittens having reached critical mass. We leave the new |
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developer introductions on -dev, but any developer leaving and wanting to say |
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goodbye, should consider posting their bit on -politics, because that's lately |
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been the reason for leaving. Anything hot button, hot topic, divisive, |
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non-development, etc. Especially license debates. Ohhh yes, the license |
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debates definitely belong here. |
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This'll probably kill -dev off completely, unless we start developing again. |
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But hey, I for once wouldn't mind a quiet gentoo-dev folder in my thunderbird |
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client. |
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So who's up for it? We can even divide ourselves into Red Devs and Blue Devs! |
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Blue Devs will, of course, be liberal, very energy conservative (i.e., no |
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Octanes for you guys!), Pro-Choice (Portage or Paludis or Pkgcore, it's a dev's |
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right to choose!), and most importantly, they'll favour any legislation from the |
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Council that bans devs from smoking. You know, the kind of smoldering that |
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happens before a dev bursts into flames? |
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And the Red Devs? Well, they'll be on the other side of the fence. They'll |
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blow the electric bill like the space shuttle burns fuel. They'll also be |
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Anti-Portage (it's Paludis/Pkgcore or else). And the flames? We're talking |
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Firebats from StarCraft here. Need a light? |
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See, this is fun already! We can hold debates where one side rips the other, |
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conventions where the egos of one side get inflated bigger than the Hindenburg |
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(and lots of confetti is thrown about), And maybe even a few scandals, like |
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discovering one die-hard Blue Dev secretly runs a 8-way Opteron system with a |
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15-disk RAID6 array and 5 CRT monitors, or something. |
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We will have to fill a few positions, though. We'll need a flip-flopper for |
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starters (the one dev who randomly changes his opinion when cornered). We'll |
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also need a dev who skipped the Freenode War a year or two ago (when Bantown |
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attacked, and they ran away screaming because of the netsplits and Squits and |
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lilo impersonators). And maybe a dev who secretly dabbles in another OS....like |
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Wind...err, Ubuntu! |
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So anyways, I'm all for this list, humour aside. It's blatantly obvious people |
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need a place to vent at times, and I think that by separating the politics from |
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the technical discussion, it might help in some way. Yes, it'll also be the |
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source of many problems too. I can't envision what they might be, but I know |
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they'd exist. |
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Anyways, thoughts? |
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--Kumba |
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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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