From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HcNXx-0007Zx-98 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:18:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3DFGLbO015837; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:16:21 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3DFAWXb005236 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:10:36 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.213] (unknown [74.92.132.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F21A65584 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal From: Ferris McCormick To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1176472581.13501.66.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> References: <20070410193249.GD7991@ubik> <1176472581.13501.66.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rNpkLyxSrthez4Redw0I" Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:57:38 +0000 Message-Id: <1176476258.12612.45.camel@liasis.inforead.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 X-Archives-Salt: 20c40fb8-1f8d-4717-8cc4-e050b8e357cc X-Archives-Hash: 2b125bdf1b76d0006dc432989f607770 --=-rNpkLyxSrthez4Redw0I Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:26 +0530, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking = ship, > > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no = fun > > working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big ref= ormation >=20 > A well considered and thoughtful message. Reinvigorating communities is > hard, and I hope the rest of the Gentoo developer community will find > inspiration from the gentle encouragement to be positive, even if it > turns out the specific ideas aren't the direction you want to go. >=20 > For all that the original poster got hammered about the stage4 thing, as > a long time Gentoo advocate I must admit that the constant stream of > negativity connected with so many developers getting upset and leaving > in a relatively short period of time is vaguely unsettling. It's good to > see other developers noting that they are happy - it balances things. >=20 OK, I'm a happy developer.=20 > One of the hallmarks of Gentoo has been whole tree co-ordination and the > fact that developers are able to cover for each other is really rather > cool. Regardless of any structural changes you might make, this > characteristic co-ordination and co-operation is what has made Gentoo an > impressive distribution and so I hope you manage to maintain this spirit > in the years to come. >=20 > AfC > Bangalore >=20 Thanks for the kind words; positive posts are always welcome. :) I believe it is very much our intent to "maintain this spirit [of co-operation]". Regards, --=20 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) --=-rNpkLyxSrthez4Redw0I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6-ecc01.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGH5piQa6M3+I///cRAjj6AJ4ynGl8MEQ4EDzlg//g05XcehqVrACgoM+N 41vbGsDLbK28//7Mmixn1YU= =Iz0P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rNpkLyxSrthez4Redw0I-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list