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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> posted 452E73A2.9050400@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:56:02 -0500: |
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> Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>> Seemant Kulleen wrote: [Thu Oct 12 2006, 08:50:33AM CDT] |
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>>> A typical example of the institutionalisation of the project [...] |
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>> A minor correction here: Spider did receive the retirement-bug e-mails, |
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>> but never knew it until today as his filters munched them. It doesn't |
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>> change his argument that Gentoo is much less personal now than it was |
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>> "back in the day", but it does, at least, make things look less |
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>> malicious. |
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> I often wondered if people's filters would muck away such retirement |
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> bugs sometimes. Perhaps devrel might send personal emails along side bug |
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> emails just in case they don't watch their bug email that much. |
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Even if they do see the bug mail, personal mails would give it the human |
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touch once again. Even when one agrees with the ultimate outcome, |
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most should agree that being run thru the system like so much grist for the |
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mill doesn't feel so great. The human touch helps. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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