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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] drobbins, leadership, etc.
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:34:39
Message-Id: b41005390801161734m7033d750r60be7c4e986ddc3a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] drobbins, leadership, etc. by Caleb Cushing
1 On 1/16/08, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 07:51:47 pm William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
3 > > And what has technical gone wrong with the project as a whole?
4 >
5 > is technical all you care about? technical is not the community. And yes the
6 > project is moving forward much more slowly technically than it used to...
7 > release are a major part of this. I used to get ebuild updates daily... now a
8 > couple times a week... and I don't believe this is more strict QA.
9 >
10
11 If you think we don't update ebuilds often you should subscribe to
12 gentoo-commits ;)
13
14 Part of moving forward is taking users into consideration. We can't
15 swap out default tools at will; we can't make crazy changes to the
16 portage interface; we can't do lots of things that maybe we would like
17 to do because people actually use the crap we put out ;)
18
19 -Alec
20
21 > > Did anyone really care that does now? Of
22 > > those that say they care, did anyone do anything?
23 >
24 > umm... Dan Robbins is offering to do something. will you accept?
25
26 Not my place to say. Certainly it's being considered; certainly we
27 are looking at alternatives. What more do you want me to say? :)
28
29 > --
30 > Caleb Cushing
31 >
32 > PGP keys available on key server
33 > wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
34 >
35 > Due to low Internet availability I may not check
36 > my email more than once a week, and thus cannot
37 > guarantee a response time.
38 >
39 >
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