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 1IAVQs-0005HR-Pn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:36:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6GIYkBP023763; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:34:46 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 l6GIV7TN017696 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:31:07 GMT Received: from localhost (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFE664C6B; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:35:26 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: cokehabit@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes Message-ID: <20070716113526.27340ee8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <469BB60D.1030201@gmail.com> References: <46968E00.4070202@gentoo.org> <1184536747.18353.55.camel@sputnik886.lnet> <469B0DC2.2070903@gentoo.org> <469BB60D.1030201@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_0cN1Jv4rYLwKkVEoVYhjCSx; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d2f57152-f911-4abe-94c3-3ffa326fdb03 X-Archives-Hash: b4037db211bfde3493ba93e44961c791 --Sig_0cN1Jv4rYLwKkVEoVYhjCSx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:16:45 +0100 George Prowse wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Matthias Langer wrote: > > =20 > >> no offense, but this is one of the worst proposals i've ever read > >> on this list; why? because, one of gentoo's major problems is that > >> it is becoming more and more a toy exclusively for its own > >> developers.=20 > > > > Gentoo's always been exclusively for the developers. Nobody's > > paying us to do this. It just so happens that the things we want to > > do also benefit other people, and so they use them. > > > > =20 > That is possibly the most pathetic, misjudged and harmful (to Gentoo)=20 > post I have ever read. You should be ashamed. Well, I'm not. I have no idea what you read, but it doesn't appear to be what I wrote. > Just because developers develop because they want to doesn't mean > they dont want to be part of a community, if that wasn't the case > then none of the current developers would have originally been part > of the userbase to begin with. What relevance does this have to anything I said? I wasn't addressing anything about being part of communities; I was addressing the motivation of volunteers contributing to Gentoo. Thanks, Donnie --Sig_0cN1Jv4rYLwKkVEoVYhjCSx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGm7pvXVaO67S1rtsRAhdQAJ4+zkPmHw7NSqEKO7JZnuivCn/PIACgkOlA P5IfFblRX3zd8BwvDchoj2I= =NaIr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_0cN1Jv4rYLwKkVEoVYhjCSx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list