Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

[Arttu V.]

On 12/22/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact
> that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails.

This is my favourite conspiracy theory as well, not the
no-html-theories. We've all been through situations where there just
aren't any people with an answer.

We've already collected all the html/no-html flamewar-stuff in this
thread, so we may as well collect the All-Time Favourite Gentoo
Complaints. First one I and (Mr. Wong?) already threw out: lack of
manpower / knowledge base.

Second favourite one is that the devs are reluctant to mix us "proles"
(users). Well, it's a users' list with some volume, so I can
understand that they don't. The Gentoo Gnome dev team is 7 or 8 people
(same size as Gentoo KDE team) according to the dev list, so it's not
as Gnome is dead on Gentoo.

Third one is the confusion of "where should I ask question?" --
mailing lists, forums or just file bugs in b.g.o? Mr. Dimlao
apparently only used this one mailing list -- and I can understand
why, the forums are ugly and terrible to use (IMHO phpbb or whatever
it is, is terrible to use).

Still, unlike this list, the forums seem to be quite actively perused
by the devs, so given how clear he is in titling his messages etc, he
could've probably gotten a response there.

I still don't buy this "it's the HTML attachments"-theory. I think
many people have jumped on this html-attachment theory for no purpose
(no other flamewars going on? ;) ).

*If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you
answer his questions about Gnome?*

Unless you can then I'd place a large probability on the theory of
currently missing the required knowledge on *this* list. The answer
may be available by asking in, e.g., the forums.

-- 
Arttu V.