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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 |
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> "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where |
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>> everyone gets along. |
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> Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the problem. |
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> Some people think Gentoo should primarily be a fun-loving community |
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> where everyone gets along, whilst others think Gentoo should primarily |
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> be a first-rate distribution delivering a quality product. |
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You say that as if it is mutually exclusive. I claim that having fun |
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leads to quality products because of motivation and the feedback between |
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people where one challenges the other to do better - I've seen quite a |
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few examples of such interactions in the past, but thanks to depressing |
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monologues by people with too much ego that is becoming more and more rare. |
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Gentoo is supposed to be fun. |
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If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum to |
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keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things. Meh. I |
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demand mandatory fun hours twice a week! And a coffee machine. And a |
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pony. Yes! A pony! |
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