Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

[George Prowse <george.prowse@gmail.com>]

On 11 Aug 2008, at 14:19, Patrick Lauer wrote:

> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700
>> "Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where
>>> everyone gets along.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description of the  
>> problem.
>> Some people think Gentoo should primarily be a fun-loving community
>> where everyone gets along, whilst others think Gentoo should  
>> primarily
>> be a first-rate distribution delivering a quality product.
>>
> You say that as if it is mutually exclusive. I claim that having fun  
> leads to quality products because of motivation and the feedback  
> between people where one challenges the other to do better - I've  
> seen quite a few examples of such interactions in the past, but  
> thanks to depressing monologues by people with too much ego that is  
> becoming more and more rare.
>
> Gentoo is supposed to be fun.
>
> If it stops being fun only grumpy old men will do the bare minimum  
> to keep things from breaking too badly instead of improving things.  
> Meh. I demand mandatory fun hours twice a week! And a coffee  
> machine. And a pony. Yes! A pony!

GLEP 57. Coffee machine and Pony Needed.

When in need of help, Gentoo needs a knight in shining armour, that  
usually comes as coffee so to facilitate that we need a coffee machine  
and a pony. I have just been informed by amne that the pony needs to  
be pink.