Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting the general dev opinion ("Meinungsbild") on some feature

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
> Alec Warner wrote:
> [..removed 25 lines of quoted text which I had already read..]
>> The primary complaint was the fact that there is too much email.
>
> Many emails are not neccessarily a problem if only they have high
> signal-to-noise ratio.
>
> I have *never* seen so competent people output so incompetent email
> as on gentoo-dev. It is seriously the worst bunch of lazy-ass email
> authors that I have ever seen. Sad face.

Well if you compare to say ubuntu-devel (which I recently joined) you
will find far fewer conversations there. I think part of that reason
is just that they have a more direct management structure. Leads have
the ability to make decisions without consulting *everyone*. We seemed
to have ditched the idea of leads long ago; except for a few remaining
projects.

-A

>
> That is of course only *my* opinion.
>
>
> //Peter
>