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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alistair Bush wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>>>> The Gentoo subforum on LQ would help to collect the posts in one place. |
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>>> That would be the point. Gentoo has its own forum so why have two |
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>>> forums? What would be the point in having two places to go look for |
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>>> answers? Better yet, why would Gentoo support both forums? |
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>>> I'm a member at LQ tho I haven't been there in a long while. I just |
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>>> don't see why there has to be two forums when the one forum we have is |
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>>> more than enough. If someone can't find the Gentoo forums, I'm not sure |
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>>> they can find the chair and keyboard either. lol |
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>> How about we ask for a subforum to be created with a BIG STICKY telling |
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>> it is better to ask support questions at forums.gentoo.org |
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>> Could it be possible that users don't know about f.g.o? ( find it |
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>> highly unlikely actually) |
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>> Alistair |
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> I'm not 100% against this. I do like your idea a lot tho. I have two |
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> things that concern me but may not make sense to anyone else. |
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> 1: Anyone remember the GUI installer? I didn't think there was enough |
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> people back then to support that "monster" either. I liked the idea but |
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> thought Gentoo would be better served by letting the devs concentrate on |
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> better things and most likely more important things. I feel about the |
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> same way about this. In the past week or so, I have seen discussions |
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> about packages not having maintainers and other things that needs |
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> attention but lack time or man power. While Gentoo has come a VERY long |
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> way in even the past few months, I would hate to see it get bogged down |
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> with another project. If it gets more projects than it can handle, the |
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> "death of Gentoo" talk will start again. I been here long enough to see |
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> that a few times. |
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The point that you are missing is that Jesús is already doing the same |
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stuff now as he will in the future. He just needs a project page to |
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make his "job" even easier and 'official' for LQ management. |
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> 2: I sort of like having basically one place to go for help. The place |
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> I go is Gentoo. That includes the Gentoo mailing list and the Gentoo |
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> forums. If LQ has a forum, who is next, justlinux, then someone else |
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> etc etc etc? Am I and a lot of other people going to have to search |
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> half a dozen websites to find a fix? What if the answer to my question |
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> is on a website I am not familiar with or know about? There would be a |
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> lot of duplication of threads across several sites and fixes would be |
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> harder to find. I am a member at justlinux, LQ and several other sites |
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> and I on occasion help people on other sites but I don't go looking for |
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> Gentoo fixes there. |
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Agreed, but people will do it anyway. We can't "shut down" |
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http://www.gentoo-quebec.org/forum/ for example. |
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> I'm not a dev by any means and what I say may not count for anything and |
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> could be ignored if needed. I have been using Gentoo since the old 1.4 |
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> days, even that was old when I got the CD, so I would hate to see Gentoo |
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> stall or stagnate again. Number two really concerns me a lot. The devs |
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> can decide if they should support the idea as far as man power. I don't |
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> see a way around having to search different sites to find fixes tho. |
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I highly, highly doubt that the GSE project will cause any stagnation |
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of Gentoo Linux. Jesús is not an ebuild developer, so if anything his |
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efforts here will *help* Gentoo and could bring in more community |
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members. The more community members we have, the more ebuild |
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developers we might get, etc etc. |
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> That said, I know Jeremy at LQ from talks in the past. I know the site |
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> and it is a great site. I am not questioning that at all. |
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> As for people knowing about Gentoo and the forums, go to google and type |
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> in Gentoo. First hit, Gentoo home page. Even includes links to the |
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> docs and other pages that are handy. |
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> Thoughts? |
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I really don't understand your negativity showing in this thread. I'm |
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not trying to attack you or anything, so don't get the wrong |
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impression. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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