Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

[Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>]

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Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Are you people serious? Let's ban nondevs from bugzilla then? Close
> #gentoo, disband PR, etc? Not sure if we can keep any sponsors then...

...or devs...

Seriously, no users == no community. Why? Because devs don't get along
with each other well enough to qualify as a community. It's really the
untold masses that make Gentoo a community. What's one of the top
resources cited as the greatness of Gentoo? The wiki. Which isn't even
official or sanctioned, but that is instead run largely by the community
at large.

Bah. This entire debate is extremely disheartening. How many devs out
there sprung from the ground pre-formed, and how many started out as
users in the community? *That* is the pool from which we draw our ranks,
from which we get our support and direction. This elitist attitude is
what drives the rationale devs to be hermits and just answer to their
small piece of the pie - because we don't give two figs about who's ego
is mightiest, just that we are producing something useful that makes us
happy, without breaking things for those dependent on us, the users.

Talk like this, especially from people I respected, makes me question
just what its worth to keep going. If Gentoo is only about the devs,
well, I'm happy with the way things are now, they work for me, so no
sense in working any further on perl-land.

Bah.


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