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Well I'm a newcomer to Gentoo and never heard of Sabayon (great project |
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btw). Knowing no one here or there, nor any history: |
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This conversation reminds me of Human Resources. They always have |
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'procedures' and 'career tracks.' Gentoo's chitchat about earning gold |
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stars and brownie points is giving me HR sickness. You're asking |
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Michael Jordan to prove himself on the high school team. |
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I've read Gentoo's new dev announcements about monkeys and paper |
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weights. People with a couple of small open-source projects. The |
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monkeys and paper weights get CVS rights. Then the chief architect of |
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Sabayon is scotched over bugzilla output? Please. That smells like bad |
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fish. |
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When someone as expert as this offers help, take it and make him a fast |
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lane. He is worth ten bugzillas. Like a scientist once told me - it |
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would be inefficient for him to clean his office, they have janitors for |
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that. |
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Bugzillas are broken and most Linux people know it. Ubuntu has hundreds |
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of bugs sitting around for years and years. Personally: I have stopped |
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filing bugzillas at various places. Projects organized around bugzillas |
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are inefficient. |
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Bugzillas are mostly good for non-devs to report bugs. I know zero |
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developers who first think to themselves, "ok, I need a project |
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bugzilla...then I can begin writing code." That isn't how development |
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works. |
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"So you don't have time to file bugs but you would have time to fix |
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them" is rhetoric. The issue is ROI. Why file bugzillas that some |
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"dev" authority figure may or may not fix in two years, when you can fix |
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the code yourself? |
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If you want to call him a Gentoo developer, then do so ASAP, and give |
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him CVS. He knows what he is doing and filing bugzillas is a waste of |
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talent. If you let him fix his own bugzillas he might go for that. |
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But wasting his life trying to earn brownie points and respect? Sad. |
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Gentoo needs the manpower and blowing it off with HR excuses is really, |
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really dumb. I can hardly believe what I'm reading. It makes me want |
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to cry. Maybe I should help Sabayon deploy on PowerPC instead of |
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writing to you guys. I don't really care who misunderstood whom, or who |
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has an attitude problem. There needs to be a red carpet for people like |
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this. I would not care if he had a 666 on his head. |
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You need to attract people like this and if bugzilla isn't working, |
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think up something new. |
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If you dislike his CVS mods you can always revert, take votes, etc. But |
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I say +1 let him have at it. |
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