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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: |
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> as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, |
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> with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun |
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> working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big reformation |
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A well considered and thoughtful message. Reinvigorating communities is |
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hard, and I hope the rest of the Gentoo developer community will find |
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inspiration from the gentle encouragement to be positive, even if it |
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turns out the specific ideas aren't the direction you want to go. |
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For all that the original poster got hammered about the stage4 thing, as |
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a long time Gentoo advocate I must admit that the constant stream of |
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negativity connected with so many developers getting upset and leaving |
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in a relatively short period of time is vaguely unsettling. It's good to |
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see other developers noting that they are happy - it balances things. |
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One of the hallmarks of Gentoo has been whole tree co-ordination and the |
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fact that developers are able to cover for each other is really rather |
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cool. Regardless of any structural changes you might make, this |
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characteristic co-ordination and co-operation is what has made Gentoo an |
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impressive distribution and so I hope you manage to maintain this spirit |
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in the years to come. |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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Technology strategy, managing change, establishing procedures, |
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and executing successful upgrades to mission critical business |
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infrastructure. |
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