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 4.54) id 1EtqeC-0006yH-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:12:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k03IBotq029674; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:11:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k03I9kZ2005752 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:09:46 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EtqbS-0007NR-1U for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:09:46 +0000 Message-ID: <43BABDE9.2020708@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:09:45 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051219) 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] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January References: <200601011053.k01ArjOh019213@robin.gentoo.org> <43B96D6D.8080107@gentoo.org> <1136226795.8779.10.camel@localhost> <43B975FD.1000401@gentoo.org> <1136228634.23404.125.camel@localhost> <1136230095.8779.32.camel@localhost> <43BAB220.1030601@gentoo.org> <43BAB438.8000301@gentoo.org> <20060103175022.36efbea9@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060103175022.36efbea9@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1701e00a-eb16-45ac-b312-9e7a619d5eb9 X-Archives-Hash: 59b4dcb8d3b895e481b854dae3decfb7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:28:24 -0800 Donnie Berkholz | wrote: | | Here's one example of a global goal: Reduce the learning curve of | | Gentoo and increase its usability. | | That goal is silly and oxymoronic. Reduced learning curve decreases | usability. I disagree. I see that something _could_ become less usable as people remove more and more features to make it easier to learn, but that's certainly not a requirement. As the saying goes, make the common tasks easy and the uncommon ones possible. Making common tasks easier doesn't necessarily decrease usability of the whole. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDur3pXVaO67S1rtsRAguaAKCissKCx8hf4t/k5rwMzcKPPWSDEQCfY9j6 txotNc7h1K+vcOw8iJEnBWU= =G95t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list