From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ylpvm25.prodigy.net (ylpvm25-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j590BStw029062 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:11:29 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.40] (rrcs-67-78-88-186.sw.biz.rr.com [67.78.88.186]) (authenticated bits=0) by ylpvm25.prodigy.net (8.12.10 auth mps linux/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j590CZvE026641 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:12:35 -0400 Message-ID: <42A71F37.8030407@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:39:19 -0500 From: Jason Huebel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) 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] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open References: <42A70812.4030103@gentoo.org> <42A715E6.7040407@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <42A715E6.7040407@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b1ca68bb-15ca-49aa-8e2c-7bed9c835118 X-Archives-Hash: dfcb7dc95f0586c6f2e27fa69d492bef Jim Northrup wrote: >might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to >speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? > > That's not a metastructure change, so it's OT for this thread. However, to help you understand the purpose of voicing someone in #gentoo-dev, questions that are of a technical nature that are already documented on the gentoo.org site shouldn't require a user to be voiced in the channel. They are already covered in the docs (RTFM) for that very reason. Don't think that my comments are meant to sound like I'm annoyed. That's not the case. The documentation on the gentoo.org site is there as a service to the users and is meant to cut down on the noise level in #gentoo-dev. Since the docs are there, we want users to read them. As with many OSS projects, Gentoo has a "help yourself" mentality. That is, if you aren't willing to do a little legwork to find the answers yourself then you are much less likely to be successful in your OSS endeavors. I hope this answers your question. Thanks for using Gentoo! :-) Jason Huebel Gentoo Board of Trustees Member Gentoo Developer Relations Lead Gentoo Recruiter -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list