Re: [gentoo-dev] Thank you

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

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Gentoo is very open to providing users with the option of using
new/different as long as they don't break existing things. I cannot say
that many of us like design decisions being taken in GNOME/systemd, but
as the long as the few interested in it do not interfere with existing
things, they are free to package it as they see fit.

On 02/06/2014 01:30 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs, so
> you can go on your daily business if you don't want to read the rest
> of it. No biggie.
> 
> I just want to say THANK YOU to all of our Gentoo developers. I've
> been using Gentoo since ca. 2002 (damn, that's more than a decade),
> and I've seen a lot of flamewars and bikeshedding on the -dev mailing
> list.
> 
> However, you guys get the job done, and although there are some things
> that I would like to have sooner (or would have liked to have
> earlier), in the end the people working keep pushing the necessary
> changes so the distribution keeps going, and (if so desired) using new
> and interesting technologies.
> 
> More importantly, the developers and the bureaucratic structures they
> have created don't get (too much) in the way of individual or small
> groups of developers pushing for progress. In general at least; there
> will be always someone resisting change, but in general Gentoo keeps
> advancing, and the council and the other bureaucratic structures don't
> punish people for just wanting to have more new and cool features in
> the distribution.
> 
> I've never said Thank You to all our developers in all these years
> using Gentoo, but after seeing the discussion the Debian CTTE is
> having related to the default init they should use[1][2][3] (including
> bureaucratic maneuvers, dilatory tactics, legalese interpretation of
> their rulings, etc.), I think the time is long overdue for me to do
> it.
> 
> Thank you for all the work you guys do and have done.
> Thank you for not penalize progress.
> Thank you for not being so rigid.
> Thank you for keeping the distribution moving and evolving.
> And finally, just thank you.
> 
> From a proud Gentoo+systemd+GNOME 3 user, thank you.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/threads.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html
> [3] http://lwn.net/Articles/584227/#Comments
> 



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