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Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs, so |
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you can go on your daily business if you don't want to read the rest |
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of it. No biggie. |
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I just want to say THANK YOU to all of our Gentoo developers. I've |
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been using Gentoo since ca. 2002 (damn, that's more than a decade), |
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and I've seen a lot of flamewars and bikeshedding on the -dev mailing |
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list. |
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However, you guys get the job done, and although there are some things |
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that I would like to have sooner (or would have liked to have |
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earlier), in the end the people working keep pushing the necessary |
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changes so the distribution keeps going, and (if so desired) using new |
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and interesting technologies. |
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More importantly, the developers and the bureaucratic structures they |
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have created don't get (too much) in the way of individual or small |
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groups of developers pushing for progress. In general at least; there |
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will be always someone resisting change, but in general Gentoo keeps |
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advancing, and the council and the other bureaucratic structures don't |
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punish people for just wanting to have more new and cool features in |
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the distribution. |
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I've never said Thank You to all our developers in all these years |
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using Gentoo, but after seeing the discussion the Debian CTTE is |
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having related to the default init they should use[1][2][3] (including |
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bureaucratic maneuvers, dilatory tactics, legalese interpretation of |
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their rulings, etc.), I think the time is long overdue for me to do |
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it. |
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Thank you for all the work you guys do and have done. |
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Thank you for not penalize progress. |
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Thank you for not being so rigid. |
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Thank you for keeping the distribution moving and evolving. |
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And finally, just thank you. |
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From a proud Gentoo+systemd+GNOME 3 user, thank you. |
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Regards. |
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[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/threads.html |
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[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html |
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[3] http://lwn.net/Articles/584227/#Comments |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |