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On 6/9/05, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@g.o> wrote: |
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> Without hearing the other side of the story or seeing a transcript of |
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> the conversation, it is hard to say whether whoever this was reacted |
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> properly or not, however I would say they have a major stick up their |
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> ass. Don't assume everybody in #gentoo-dev would have reacted to your |
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> query the same way. For example, people have asked me for voice a few |
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> times, and I grant it to them if their question or concern actually has |
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> to do with development of gentoo. If the request amounts to user |
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> support, I tell them to try #gentoo or bugzilla. |
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Having spent quite a long time on IRC/Bugzilla/-dev I can say that |
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Stephen is right here - there are some devs who, for whatever reason, |
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not particularly welcoming to newcomers. I've been on the receiving |
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end of some of their comments and it's not very nice, and caused me to |
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step back from getting involved any further for quite some time. |
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However, having said that there are also some decent devs who are more |
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than willing to help (even on simple ebuild queries when perhaps I |
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should have read the docs a bit further before asking) and get new |
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people on board. You just have to know who to approach and the best |
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way to do so. |
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Finally, having met a lot of the UK developers I can tell you that |
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none of them (even Ciaran ;) are as bad as you might think based on |
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their attitude on IRC. |
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Paul |
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Rogue Tory |
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http://www.roguetory.org.uk |
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