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Donnie Berkholz posted <42A884F9.7010006@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:05:45 -0700: |
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> Olivier Crete wrote: |
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>> I still fail to see why everything done by Gentoo devs belongs on the |
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>> Gentoo page. The only article that belongs on the Gentoo page is the one |
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>> about the Enoch and how it became Gentoo. |
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> Because it's something relevant to Linux done by a member of our |
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> community. And of course we care what people in our community are doing, |
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> don't we? Well, I guess some of us don't. |
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I'll second DB, here. |
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Several years ago, when 2.4 was still fairly fresh, and I was switching to |
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Linux (Mandrake at the time) because eXPrivacy crossed a line I could not |
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and would not cross, as I was getting ready to switch and doing my |
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research, it came time to decide what file system I was going to use. |
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Googling, I quickly came across /just/ the article (series) I was looking |
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for, on IBM DeveloperWorks, by someone I knew not from Adam, at the time. |
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Imagine my surprise, some years later, when I began doing the research |
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that ultimately lead to my switching to Gentoo, to find that the guy that |
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wrote that series of articles, was the SAME Daniel Robbins, founder of |
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what was now Gentoo! |
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To me, that's a valid link, one that Gentoo should be proud of. In |
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deleting that page, it's as if we are trying to wash away some part of our |
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past, "the bad old days", that we are somehow ashamed of. To me, that |
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just doesn't seem right. Politics is politics and people come and go, but |
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even if that's NOT the intended message, it will seem to some folks |
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(myself included) that Gentoo is trying to somehow hide its past, erase a |
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history that they SHOULD be proud of and continuing to point to, not |
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helping the tides of time erase. |
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The same of course goes for other works listed there, by other authors. |
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If they were Gentoo contributors and wrote something of value to the FLOSS |
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community, we should be PROUD to list their works. |
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That said, there remains the practical issue of keeping links updated. I |
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see a couple possibilities. |
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One, there's the idea others floated -- note on the page the problem of |
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keeping links updated as to why links aren't provided, and suggest |
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searching on the titles listed, possibly with IBM DeveloperWorks listed |
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specifically, or otherwise with publisher or original source acknowledged, |
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to ease the search. |
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Two, keep the links, but again, specifically acknowledge some of them move |
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from time to time, list them as last verified links, and display a |
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feedback mechanism (email, or web form based to prevent email harvesting, |
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or whatever) prominently asking for reader link update submissions. If a |
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reader says a link doesn't work and it's verified, with no new link |
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immediately available, simply note that it has been verified dead and ask |
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for updates. The idea here is to leave the links as well as acknowledging |
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they may be outdated, but leave the work of providing updates to the |
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readers. |
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When I saw the reference to the file systems series, I recognized it but |
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had to verify for myself it was the same one, which I quickly did. I |
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don't recall if I used the on-site link or not, but I would have gladly |
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done a bit of googling to find it again and provided an updated link if |
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the site link was bad and the site had asked for updates if necessary. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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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 in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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