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Hi, |
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I've followed this whole thread and you seem to be saying that you don't |
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understand why non-KDE devs replied and why it was taken so negatively. |
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Therefore, I'll explain how your original email was perceived (at least to |
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me) so that perhaps you can see the other side of the fence. I could do this |
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for every email you've sent, but I hope that you'll do it yourself. |
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On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:06, Jeff Smelser wrote: |
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> Dev's, |
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> Its becoming increasingly common place these days for program to sit in |
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> ~x86 for a long time. |
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You've opened here addressing the entire developer-base of Gentoo. You've then |
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gone on to say that we're all lazy. |
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> I am curious why this is? |
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This sounds like an honest question on its own, but sounds very sarcastic in |
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the context of the previous statement. |
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> Kde 3.2.3 is still in testing. Whats taking so long? |
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Again, fairly innocent question but, even on its own, it has a very |
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self-centered overtone. In the context of what you wrote previously, it's |
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just a personal attack on Gentoo's KDE maintainer(s). |
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> June 24 is a long time to test a production ready application, as kde feels |
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> it is. |
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This shows that the package in question has been in testing for a total of 16 |
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days. This also shows that you haven't looked into what a dev's job is. |
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In the context of the whole thread, i think those five words "as kde feels it |
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is" might have been the whole point of your email - "why aren't releases that |
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upstream believe to be stable considered stable by Gentoo?" If you had of |
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asked that providing the context of KDE 3.2.3 being tested for 16 days, I |
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guarantee you would have got a better respone. |
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> There are other packages I have found I am having to force upgrading myself |
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> on these days just to get. |
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This has no merit what so ever to the question your asking or any point your |
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trying to make and so just sounds like a whinge... |
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> mysql is still on 4.018, they are on 20 now. |
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...and then you go on to make another personal attack on the mysql |
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maintainer(s). |
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> Whats going on over there? |
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> Jeff |
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You then signoff by broadening your personal attack to include every Gentoo |
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developer. |
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I hope you can understand why everybody got so negative toward you. If you |
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look over your other emails in an objective manner, you'll find them littered |
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with the same sorts of (from your viewpoint, mis-)interpretations as what |
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I've outlined above. Especially if it's via email and especially if it is |
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possibly a delicate topic, ask a question as tersely as possible so that it |
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and only it is answered. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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