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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:55:50PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> We understand when real life gets in |
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> the way of bug-fixing, because all our developers are volunteers. |
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I never ever would have considered becoming a developer if this hadn't |
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been the case. I have my day job to worry about responsibilities and |
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planning. |
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> Also I find it amusing when people say that Gentoo exists for the |
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> users. I think that is wrong. Gentoo exists for the *developers*. |
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> It's our playground, and it's the reason we use a live tree rather |
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> than switching to an actually sane approach. The users are cool |
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> because they point out bugs, help solve problems on bugzilla, suggest |
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> enhancements, provide patches, and notify us of package updates. |
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> Sometimes they become developers. But the truth is that Gentoo sees |
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> improvement and maintenance in the areas that appeal to the |
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> developers. And that is why Gentoo exists for the developers first, |
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> the users second. |
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Back when I was not yet a Gentoo developer but just a developer using |
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Gentoo, whenever I ran into a problem with one tool or other I was |
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quite motivated to try and come up with a fix, because: |
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- it was easy to include the fix in the system because of the ebuild |
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format as well as the PORTAGE_OVERLAY feature |
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- it was easy to submit the fix back to Gentoo in a ready to use format |
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- I didn't have to wait forever for the next official release containing |
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the fix I contributed |
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I was also very pleased with all the up-to-date tools/applications at my |
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disposal. |
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Now that I am a Gentoo developer I just want to help any development |
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done on a Gentoo platform go as smoothly as possible by trying to keep |
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bug response time and TTP (time-to-portage) of new versions down. |
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So in my mind, as someone else already mentioned, Gentoo is from |
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developers for developers. |
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Regards, |
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Maurice. |
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P.S.: I must say I have not yet taken part in any Gentoo project that |
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isn't purely maintenance. Maybe if I did my view would change... |
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hmmm... /me looks for a list of current projects |
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P.P.S.: Oh, and I cannot send this mail without mentioning that since |
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the beginning, when I just started using Gentoo, I've always |
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felt welcome... something I didn't expect to find on the |
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internet. |
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-- |
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Maurice van der Pot |
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Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@g.o http://www.gentoo.org |
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Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@××××××××.com http://www.kfk4ever.com |