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On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Some of us long term Gentoo users care. |
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> If you do care, then about the worst thing you can do is make posts |
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> like this on a mailing list. |
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> Potential Gentoo contributors will read your post and decide to use |
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> some other distro. Then there are fewer people making improvements to |
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> Gentoo, and thus the distro becomes less useful to you. |
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> This is one of those situations where talking about a problem becomes |
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> a problem... |
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While I certainly understand what you're saying, I think this is a slippery |
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slope - "Don't talk about our problems, people will notice, we need to |
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pretend to be perfect!" leads to actual problems festering, going |
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unresolved, and becoming much larger than they should be. It's also *very* |
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much not in the spirit of Open Source. |
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That being said - do you have direction on where issues like these *should* |
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be discussed, if not on the ML? I'm certainly fine with a "This issue isn't |
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appropriate for discussion *here*, please take it to ${SOMEWHERE}" |
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statement. :) |
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(And no, this is not a statement of opinion one way or the other on the |
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original topic of this thread - that's not something I feel qualified to |
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opine upon...) |
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Thanks! |
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-James |
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> Rich |
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