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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> > Is it simply subscribing to -dev and voicing the conversation there? |
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>> Of course not. But please, do that if you think it will help to steer |
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>> Gentoo to whatever direction do you think is the correct one. |
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>> Personaly I don't think the devs (who, AFAIK, do not receive a single |
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>> dime for working on Gentoo) will appreciate anybody telling them how |
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>> they should do their jobs, the one they do for free. But that's just |
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>> me. |
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> I think so. Most devs are grateful for (polite) feedback, and take it |
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> into account when doing their work. I suspect they're unaware of just |
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> how much this change to booting is disliked by Gentoo users. |
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Then, by all means, do it. I would think is a little silly to think |
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that the devs are "unaware" of the huge threads this change has |
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generated on -user, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe someone should tell |
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them. |
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>> No, by "you know what needs to be done" I mean: code. Contribute. |
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>> Become a developer. Make shit happens the way you think it should |
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>> happen. |
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>> Shut up and code. Google it, I didn't come with the phrase. |
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> Just as a matter of interest, how much coding have you done for open |
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> source or free software? It was conspicuously absent from the CV you |
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> posted here a few days ago. |
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Well, it wasn't really my CV (I would not bore to death the list with |
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it), and I don't think it has nothing to do with the dicussion at |
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hand, but the answer is: "not that much". There is code of mine in |
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several projects in the stack, but it's usually simple things or |
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one-liners. I have (like many on this list) my share of bug reports, |
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first versions of ebuilds and testing, but nothing out of the |
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ordinary. I enjoy too much so many other pleasures to be able to give |
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so much of my free time to free software development. |
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And that's exactly why I respect so much the devs. They actually do |
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it. It's not only pragmatism to say that whatever happens it will |
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happen because of the people coding whatever is necessary for it to |
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happen. It's also because they actually *deserve* to be the ones that |
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decide what should happen. |
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Code talks. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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