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On 17-06-2010 12:17, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:08:05 +0200 |
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> Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o> wrote: |
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I had some text written here. Why did you just remove it like this? Next |
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time, please write some kind of marker "(...)" to tell you did crop some |
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text. |
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>> That choice can be to join the Gentoo community, or leave it. |
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> The choice can be to use Gentoo, or not use Gentoo. |
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> If using Gentoo means being required to use bugzilla, the mailing |
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> lists, forums and IRC, then Gentoo has huge scalability problems. |
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I believe using Gentoo means reading the handbook, read forums, bugs and |
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learn from them.. That's what I felt when I read the Gentoo philosophy |
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for the first time. |
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> Providing one on one support takes an awful lot of manpower; the goal |
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> should be to improve the distribution so that most people don't |
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> encounter many bugs and can get all the support they need from the |
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> documentation. |
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Are we trying to make Gentoo some kind of ubuntu? |
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> Thus things like GLEP 42 news items: they're a way of avoiding having |
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> thousands of users running to get support because they don't know what |
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> to do when a large change happens. If you think the community's the |
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> important part, you'd do the opposite: you'd not provide upfront |
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> instructions, and would instead see big changes as an opportunity to |
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> persuade more users to participate in the community by trying to help |
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> each other. |
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- Angelo, |
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PS: I'm exceeding my email bulk-reply quotas for today. I don't want to |
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flood the mailing list so I'll step back and leave other people express |
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their opinion. |
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