From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-project+bounces-5799-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4CB351395E2 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73670E0BA7; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50C58E0BA3 for <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lf0-f45.google.com (mail-lf0-f45.google.com [209.85.215.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zx2c4) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9AFA333FECD for <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 21:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf0-f45.google.com with SMTP id o141so181049371lff.1 for <gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:07:40 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC031VFGYyWxb4owYfs1AqfGPLvJV5pV1JRdCDfD4Op7XgvVInw5Ds6do3GnhoMsJLrMa/PZNAnp3VgFxLA== X-Received: by 10.25.242.75 with SMTP id d11mr1933871lfk.169.1480626442297; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:07:22 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-project+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-project+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-project+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list <gentoo-project.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.32.15 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:07:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20161130213538.4e117d9c@snowblower> References: <41fa9fb1-477d-acbd-8683-ae0dda8c1947@gentoo.org> <20161130213538.4e117d9c@snowblower> From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <zx2c4@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 22:07:21 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: <CAHmME9rySM7eDQgDfyJ+3VhYeOPiG6M0MND=5AGXsjdKWfV5PQ@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAHmME9rySM7eDQgDfyJ+3VhYeOPiG6M0MND=5AGXsjdKWfV5PQ@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Evidence of idella4's damage to Gentoo, please To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 2c07ea49-d58b-42cc-8355-2f95849a83a3 X-Archives-Hash: f1df99c207303443dcb9966269ea4f25 On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:43:46 -0800 > Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote: >> This distribution should not turn away anyone willing (and able) to >> help. This is a critical flaw that could accelerate our decline. > > Gentoo is about the community, not about the product, and things have > been this way for quite a while now. Most of the Gentoo community don't > use Gentoo the distribution, just Gentoo the social medium, and any > threat to this must be eliminated. That's why Gentoo likes forums, > wikis, and long lists of emerge options, rather than high quality > documentation and good defaults: the more confusion and misinformation > there is out there, the more forum posts it takes to resolve a problem, > and the better the community is as a result. Anybody this hilarious should pretty clearly just be elected king.