On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Some of us long term Gentoo users care.
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> If you do care, then about the worst thing you can do is make posts
> like this on a mailing list.
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> Potential Gentoo contributors will read your post and decide to use
> some other distro.  Then there are fewer people making improvements to
> Gentoo, and thus the distro becomes less useful to you.
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> This is one of those situations where talking about a problem becomes
> a problem...

While I certainly understand what you're saying, I think this is a slippery
slope - "Don't talk about our problems, people will notice, we need to
pretend to be perfect!" leads to actual problems festering, going
unresolved, and becoming much larger than they should be. It's also *very*
much not in the spirit of Open Source.

That being said - do you have direction on where issues like these *should*
be discussed, if not on the ML? I'm certainly fine with a "This issue isn't
appropriate for discussion *here*, please take it to ${SOMEWHERE}"
statement. :)

(And no, this is not a statement of opinion one way or the other on the
original topic of this thread - that's not something I feel qualified to
opine upon...)

Thanks!

-James


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