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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:25 +0000, Erick Michau wrote: |
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> My point is: if some newbies would like to defend the idea of a quiz or |
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> whatsoever, could that be possible to post it on forums.gentoo.org |
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> rather than to this mailing list? We would have much more people reading |
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> and commenting and more HCI experts to help the devs out if they need |
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> to. Because now I think the reflexion here is more guided by intuitive |
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> conceptions rather than theories, which is not bad but not the best way... |
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I think you're missing the point that this is not designed to make |
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things easier, but rather quicker. We quite simply are more concerned |
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with functionality right now than any kind of HCI mumbo-jumbo. The root |
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problem is that people are assuming that an installer is designed to |
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make things easier for people. It is not. The primary design of the |
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installer, according to the project plan laid out when the installer was |
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first being conceived, is to facilitate rapid deployment. The confusion |
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comes from the users that think that you run the installer on every |
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machine you have, rather than run it once, make a profile, and install |
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it on *hundreds* of machines identically. The installer's primary goal |
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is to facilitate an enterprise computing need, not any HCI needs of |
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users. Perhaps once the core functionality has been completed and bugs |
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have been reduced, this can be looked into, but it isn't so much of a |
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concern as getting the code written and functional. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |