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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Matthias Langer wrote: |
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>> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read on |
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>> this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that it is |
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>> becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own developers. |
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> Gentoo's always been exclusively for the developers. Nobody's paying us |
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> to do this. It just so happens that the things we want to do also |
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> benefit other people, and so they use them. |
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It also happens that bugs are reported, and patches provided, by users. Not |
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to mention documentation written, support provided on irc and in forums, |
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which are the envy of every OS out there. Oh and the small matter of |
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defending Gentoo against detractors, the most telling of which are those |
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who criticise elitist ``devs''. |
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Are you really claiming that Gentoo could possibly function as an |
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organisation without the users? |
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steveL -- sick of this attitude (and waiting for the "oh but we're users |
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too"; so be moderated like us then.) |
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Here's an idea: close the dev m-l and have a dev forum instead. If you |
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cannot maintain the level of civility we have to, how can you possibly |
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claim to represent Gentoo to the level expected? |
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