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On Wednesday 14 Sep 2011 11:25:23 Alan Mackenzie 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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Could someone please nudge them this way for them to get first hand feedback |
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on their decision. |
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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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Not all of us have the capability to code, although all of us are grateful for |
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good code devs produce and often express our user needs and wants in this M/L. |
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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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Canek may wish to keep his reply off list because it wouldn't be of particular |
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interest to many and is not relevant with Gentoo being aligned with a flawed |
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(IMHO) design principle. |
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Better we focus our efforts instead on influencing Gentoo devs and upstream |
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decision making on this matter before it defaults into a design orthodoxy for |
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Linux. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |