From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.loginet.ro (mx.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j585DfbX013098 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 05:13:41 GMT Received: (qmail 11286 invoked by uid 204); 8 Jun 2005 08:14:12 +0300 Received: from 217.156.27.36 by hera (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (f-prot: 4.5.4/3.16.6. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.36):. Processed in 0.100839 secs); 08 Jun 2005 05:14:12 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.36):. Processed in 0.100839 secs) Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (mrness@217.156.27.36) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Jun 2005 08:14:12 +0300 Message-ID: <42A67E9B.9030703@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 08:14:03 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050504) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? References: <20050606235550.GL9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1118181939.19008.13.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1118181939.19008.13.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4D516F8FC6ABAA98CE57A823" X-Archives-Salt: 6da2338e-9a12-4f6e-ab81-3aa1bf51956f X-Archives-Hash: f69729a0cfca77f5dc655b0b811f5e25 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4D516F8FC6ABAA98CE57A823 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Gianelloni wrote: >On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 19:55 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > > >>Also I find it amusing when people say that Gentoo exists for the >>users. I think that is wrong. Gentoo exists for the *developers*. >> >> > >This is the reason why *I* use/develop Gentoo. I love it. I could care >less if every single user we have drops us for Ubuntu. I would still >develop Gentoo so long as it is still fun. > > > You might reconsider this statement. Suppose the entire user base will migrate to Ubuntu. The direct consequence will be that the active dev corpus will grow thin, which will lead to a dramatic decrease of distro's merits. The dev and user communities are very close tighted together, but if analyze who needs whom, you'll realize that dev community depends on user community, not the other way around. No dev is irreplaceable, as long as we have our cluefull user base in place. Not every gentoo dev has a selfish motivation (at least not as selfish as "having fun" or "being cool" motivations). For example, my reason to becoming dev was to maintain unpopular (in dev world, of course) packages and keep b.g.o as clean as I could. I ended up taking care of 100+ ebuilds, from which only 2 (ppp and squid) interests me as a person. --------------enig4D516F8FC6ABAA98CE57A823 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpn6fRZBYwhawvi4RAvJvAJ9vY6vTX/QhL7RzJbCF15pibpxo0QCguNOb 6N+8yewZyfdFkj8kaxcNTMA= =dFwx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4D516F8FC6ABAA98CE57A823-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list