From: George Prowse <george.prowse@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:34:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F07D271-9BE7-4D48-AB0A-F991DED593A9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A03C7A.7070309@dev.gentooexperimental.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 22:26 [gentoo-dev] Retirement Bo Ørsted Andresen
2008-08-10 22:35 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-08-10 23:18 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-10 23:40 ` Denis Dupeyron
2008-08-11 0:31 ` Duncan
2008-08-11 4:51 ` Alec Warner
2008-08-11 5:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-11 7:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-11 13:19 ` Patrick Lauer
2008-08-11 13:31 ` Anthony Metcalf
2008-08-12 0:26 ` Duncan
2008-08-12 16:02 ` Jeroen Roovers
2008-08-11 13:34 ` George Prowse [this message]
2008-08-11 10:27 ` David Leverton
2008-08-11 7:25 ` Steve Long
2008-08-11 9:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Santiago M. Mola
2008-08-11 10:58 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-03 19:49 Seemant Kulleen
2006-11-03 20:37 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Christian Faulhammer
2006-11-03 19:15 [gentoo-dev] Retirement Jon Portnoy
2006-11-04 1:20 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Duncan
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