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hasufell schrieb: |
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>> Thank you, I accept. My manifesto: |
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>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~chithanh/council/manifesto-201306.txt |
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> Do you think package forks or split-packages for single files would |
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> improve user experience? |
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> What should be our _priority_? Keeping devs happy or keeping users |
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> happy? |
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Running Gentoo requires our users to make informed decisions all the time. |
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As long as the forked or split packages are accompanied with documentation |
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describing straightforward ways how to make use of them, I do not see any |
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significant degradation of user experience. |
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About keeping devs happy vs. keeping users happy: I think that everyone of |
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us has an idea of what Gentoo is and what it isn't. |
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Is Gentoo a distribution for users who refuse to read documentation and |
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expect a one-click install? Hardly. Yet sometimes, I encounter users in |
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#gentoo / #gentoo-ten on freenode IRC, who just booted the LiveDVD or |
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InstallCD, and ask how to start the installer. They often leave |
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disappointed when we inform them that Gentoo installation has to be done |
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manually. |
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This may be an extreme example, but I think that while making users happy |
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is a good thing, there are limits on how far we go to cater for certain |
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users. Deciding where this limit is I see in the responsibility of each |
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individual package maintainer. If you think that a developer does not do |
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enough to keep a particular group of users happy, present to him your case |
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and encourage him to make the necessary changes. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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