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On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:15:38 -0500 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday, December 1, 2016 9:46:14 AM EST Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > There is a difference between operating in public from day one, |
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> > and asking someone to expose possibly-confidential facts. |
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> > For the latter, you need agreement of all interested parties. |
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> Please this is Gentoo, what really needs to be confidential? This is not |
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> proprietary stuff. This is not governmental secretive work. Nothing need be |
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> confidential. Point blank period. |
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Well, since you suggested cultural differences already... I don't know |
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what your culture suggests but if someone confides in me, I don't go |
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repeating what he told me on a public mailing list. |
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> > Did you ever estimate how much harm to actual Gentoo development do |
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> > never-ending mailing list threads that bring no point whatsoever except |
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> > for provoking a lot of developers to reply, who would otherwise be |
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> > doing technical work on Gentoo? |
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> Given the fact Gentoo mailing lists go inactive for periods of time. Given the |
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> fact that lots of things have issues no one notices. You are assuming Gentoo |
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> is much more popular that it is. |
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> You are also assuming I am not doing any work.... |
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> If I wasn't limited to commenting on lists, Maybe Gentoo would be benefiting |
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> from my work. Work that needs to be done per things you have proposed but |
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> expect others to do the leg work like EAPI 6 changes etc. |
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> Just because you get no benefit from a lengthy thread on a mailing list. Do not |
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> assume others or the larger community has no interest. |
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> Sorry Michał Górny Gentoo is bigger than just YOU. You are not the sole |
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> developer or community member. Deal with it! |
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Did you ever count how many community members have unsubscribed from |
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the lists because of your posts? Maybe I'm one of the few who are blunt |
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enough to tell it straight to you but this is what's happening. |
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And it's not limited to you, of course. |
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Why I don't do that? Because I still want to have some influence |
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on Gentoo. I don't want to learn that someone did something silly |
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because everyone ignored the thread, so obviously there was no |
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opposition. |
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Of course you could consider that what you're doing has some positive |
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effect. For example, Gentoo is gaining new mailing lists so that people |
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can discuss on very specific topics without having to filter out all |
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the noise. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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