On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:45:08 -0600 Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| John David Robinson wrote: [Sun Feb 27 2005, 02:36:26PM CST]
| > I feel I should point out that people who aren't Gentoo developers
| > regularly read this list (not to mention its availability in the
| > archives).  Some of them (maybe even devs themselves, though I can't
| > speak for them) have well-formed, educated opinions that you don't
| > share, and which you have insulted.
| 
| Ciaranm's original e-mail mostly comes under the heading of
| "trolling". Please do not feed the trolls.

Actually, it came under the heading of "covering my ass so that when the
inevitable complaint makes its way to devrel, I have something to point
to to show that I didn't just commit the thing without asking first".
The trolling was just an incidental side effect thrown in to liven up
what would otherwise be an extremely boring thread.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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