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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:47:23
Message-Id: 4F7726C5.6000003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 03/31/12 23:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:07 +0800
3 > Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> So you think Gentoo should advertise as "the chances of it working
5 >>> are greater than 0%"?
6 >>
7 >> I said better ... not repetitive trolls.
8 >>
9 >> If you cared about making things better you'd spend more time writing
10 >> patches and less time trying to pick fights on public mailinglists :)
11 >>
12 >> But I guess small minds, small pleasures ...
13 >
14 > What Gentoo needs is less immediate writing of patches and more careful
15 > thinking about how a complex mess of sort-of working, poorly
16 > interacting features can be unified into a smaller number of correct,
17 > coherent concepts. Right now most of the patches are fixing screwups in
18 > earlier patches that were caused by implementing the wrong thing (and
19 > often introducing new problems along the way).
20 >
21 > The fact that you have code that does something does not automatically
22 > imply that doing it is a good idea.
23 >
24
25 ... and now we train not sending private messages to public mailing
26 lists again, mmmhkay? After so many years you still accidentally do such
27 things on purpose. Not cool.