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On Thu, 11 May 2017 15:57:52 -0400 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> We don't want people to avoid us. |
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I myself have been there and done that. I left for many years. |
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Very few things if anything improved. I was even accused of not doing |
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more over those years. Despite how people handicap my ability to |
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contribute. Which I stopped some time ago. |
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My recent activity on Github was simply trying to address |
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contributors that Gentoo Developers were ignoring... |
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This person ignored for 11 months. Does this guy sound happy? Did |
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anyone other than me reply to address his concerns? |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1721#issuecomment-300155991 |
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Good reason for me to be blocked from Github right? What does that say |
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to that guy? I had NOTHING to do with Gentoo Devs ignoring that pull |
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request. |
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Why is this one still open? Mgorny has superior skills to my pathetic |
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ones. Why does he not merge that request? Why has Chewi not? |
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Anyone even talking to the contributor? |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1358 |
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While that pull request addresses a number of Tomcat bugs. There are |
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still many more Tomcat related bugs people are reporting. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=tomcat&list_id=3530490 |
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What about this guy? Did anyone reach out to him? |
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He showed in IRC as well.... |
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http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=149194941632740&w=2 |
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Those are just a few and all 3 have NOTHING to do with me. That is |
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Gentoo Developers neglecting their own contributors. Upsetting them and |
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driving them away. Do you think any of them will contribute more? |
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I feel bad for all three.... They were not treated right! |
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> If somebody looks at our list archives and see lots of flames, they |
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> may be discouraged from participating. |
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Rarely will chaos drive someone away from a superior product and |
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offering. More so if one is technically superior to another. If such |
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does they then were not interested in the technical aspects or did not |
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consider them superior. |
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Why do I still run Gentoo after how I am treated and seen? For |
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technical reasons clearly not social. |
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> If somebody posts a bug and somebody replies saying that xyz on |
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> Gentoo is dead and that you'd be better off on another distro, |
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> they'll probably take that advice ensuring xyz remains dead. Etc. |
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Or when the bug and/or fix for said issue goes ignored for a very long |
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time. It shows that the Distro is being neglected. That alone will |
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drive people away. Even if a package is alive, it can be dead on a |
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given distro. |
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> It is a bit of "we will not hide problems" vs "not hiding problems |
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> actually causes those problems." Suicide by social contract? |
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People are intuitive and can see problems hidden or not. |
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Gentoo Developers and people within are creating FAR more problems than |
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anyone on the outside.... There are 3 clear examples above. Where is |
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the clear example of say my actions driving another away? Any evidence? |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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