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I think gentoo is stuck with the release of new tools, new ideas.. |
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I've been worried about the Weekly Newsletter too, but you only have |
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to read planet.gentoo.org to see that the wheel stills moving on, and |
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stills healthy. I think there's a lot more gentoo for the years to |
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come. |
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On 7/3/07, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in |
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> which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the |
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> decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the |
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> remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. |
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> |
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> Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter |
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> hasn't been published in almost two months. Is Gentoo destined to be |
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> just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up |
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> to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo |
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> is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and |
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> potential are being stunted by the "we don't need them" attitude which |
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> perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners. |
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> |
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> Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a |
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> short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo |
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> no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes. |
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> Car mechanics all start as car drivers. |
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> |
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> - Grant |
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