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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 19:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:44:03 -0400 |
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>> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> To future devs and any new contributing users, they will see -dev as a |
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>>> ml for developer interaction. They will see -project as a place for |
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>>> interaction with the community. |
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>> Wouldn't that be, uh, -user? |
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> No because that's where people go for help. Or to discuss usage of |
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> Gentoo. |
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> -project would be for people or etc looking to contribute to the Gentoo |
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> project. Development and etc for anyone outside of the Gentoo project :) |
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But -dev is where the substantial discussion takes place. -dev would |
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still be the "inside loop." And a community based project simply should |
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not exclude/reduce (even simply in perception) the community's |
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involvement in that loop. |
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Correct me if I'm reading you wrong but you seem, in your choice of |
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words, to be relegating non-devs to being "outside of the Gentoo |
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project." And that is exactly the attitude we need to steer clear of, |
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and exactly the DNA that this proposal would inject. |
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I love/admire/adore/have great gratitude for our developers. They are |
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certainly part of this project. But, even as a lowly user - I am also. |
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Or perhaps I've just been reading too much Marx... |
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W. |
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