From: Patrick Lauer <bugs@dev.gentooexperimental.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:19:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A03C7A.7070309@dev.gentooexperimental.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080811084559.3a8c005e@snowcone>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 13:19 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 [this message]
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
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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