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> I was up late on a friday evening hacking up a nifty addition to my |
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> system and in my excitement and exuberance jumped on IRC to the dev |
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> channel to get pointers to the best "official" references to ebuild |
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> crafting and submission. |
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> |
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> As it was absolutely silent, I waited a few minutes and requested voice |
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> from the first notice of motion i saw in the channel.. "re", or some |
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> similar indication of important offical business commencing. I was |
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> informed that the bottom line was voice was only granted to developers, |
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> period, end of story, no exceptions, and I was obviously misinformed and |
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> should be elsewhere. Instead of anything like assistance I wound up |
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> being told |
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> 1) (condescension) it was people like me who try to skirt the gentoo |
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> process which are actually the problem even if we think it's contributing, |
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> 2)these important people in this channel are only here so that they can |
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> occasionally ping each other and see thier nickname had been highlighted. |
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> 3) that under no circumstance was I going to get an audience in |
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> #gentoo-dev, now or in future context, because it was for developers, |
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> and regardless of 20 years coding experience or working on linux since |
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> 0.99, I was not a developer |
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> 4) I could feel free to file a bug if I thought there was an issue, or |
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> talk to a recruiter about something to help out with. |
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Without hearing the other side of the story or seeing a transcript of |
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the conversation, it is hard to say whether whoever this was reacted |
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properly or not, however I would say they have a major stick up their |
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ass. Don't assume everybody in #gentoo-dev would have reacted to your |
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query the same way. For example, people have asked me for voice a few |
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times, and I grant it to them if their question or concern actually has |
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to do with development of gentoo. If the request amounts to user |
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support, I tell them to try #gentoo or bugzilla. |
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In any case, if they said voice was only granted to developers, they are |
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dead wrong. Developers have ops, while developers in training or |
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wannabe developers are typically granted voice. |
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-Steve |
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