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On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:23:51 pk did opine thusly: |
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> On 2011-07-06 18:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > And what is happening to the developers lately? Some of them |
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> > have become hostile and arrogant against their own users. |
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> I noted the same from the same guy a while back. Really "grumpy" and |
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> you can't argue with him either... But then again, there's nothing |
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> stopping either of us from becoming developers and to be friendly |
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> towards our fellow Gentooers... Well, except time that I don't have |
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> to invest into doing that so I'm very grateful that people |
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> (developers) have time to invest. So: Kudos to the developers |
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> (grumpy or not)! |
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> "I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date!..." ;-) |
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> PS. Gentoo infrastructure also allows supporting your own ebuilds... |
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Holy shit, that attitude from Samuli sucks big balls big time. |
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He's always come across to me as an OK dev, never seen him pull THAT |
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stunt before. |
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Devs get a certain amount of leeway and tolerance from users because |
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of what they do as volunteers. But there's a line somewhere and in my |
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view arbitrarily deciding to obsolete a toolkit just because you feel |
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like it crosses that like. Following that up with a "fuck off and stop |
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re-opening the ticket" is even worse. |
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You'll note I used the verb "obsolete" and not "deprecate", that is |
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deliberate. He has not deprecated gtk+-2 in spite of naming it that, |
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he is trying to obsolete it without going through the gradual |
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dwindling away that deprecation is designed to encourage. |
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