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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:49:21 -0500 Dan Meltzer |
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<parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com> wrote: |
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| Apparently it does. How many huge threads have you seen lately that |
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| accomplished nothing? How many threads have people started with great |
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| ideas, only to give up in disgust because people cause a huge fuss |
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| about small details, and nothing ever gets accomplished? Quite a few. |
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Most of them get somewhere, eventually. They'd get there a bit faster |
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if we booted you, Duncan, Nathan and Alec from the lists, but I guess |
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the cost of doing that wouldn't be worth the gain. Sure, the odd thread |
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ends up going nowhere, but that's usually when the original idea isn't |
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implementable. |
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Look at the news GLEP, for example. Half the replies are worthless |
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drivel from morons. The remainder is extremely useful input. The GLEP |
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in its original form wouldn't have worked -- heck, I knew that when I |
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posted it for review. But it's getting there, and after another round |
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or two we'll end up with something that will work first time when it's |
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implemented. Better to spend a bit of time now having an extended |
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technical discussion (which differs from a flamefest, but only when you |
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look closely) than to go ahead and screw up the tree... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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