From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFrwM-0004wK-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:11:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76FD7E0B8F; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96F1E0B8D for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so844430rvf.46 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:10:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=mR17NQ+fsz/UPG9XzcGvJxG4RzvFjUxkded5NBiZ9a4=; b=IhC4c3yWRQEIhK8OMY7NaargVUplJW+q6r45uHjfFnxOtooNjObWOlNnrP2sgyiaDgD0YO/DzpX2ZLu8Lbb4CCZ0JK3NFu8mmUMaIg2ZCpHkfTPvzQwdoznh/w+6tiVj/Ik3LAmwJpUxPpuBL9O8ChA1Vyd5wGfOPZdwbReTf/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=BmUYEJbGCC/Ir7sk6awNeSkFPFOioPXMKvWP3Mr/vkx7JYZgXCN9eIzr6nN2p0wm7ZnQjloyBL0ElpqHy7jM4c9HdIMEt7y56wumnSzT3XP0ZxriZd3AtTcLf4rwZ+jvByTkB4CSLq40WZ2UqmV/bdBl9wd63Vlo2sEfiX30DFY= Received: by 10.140.180.13 with SMTP id c13mr2395539rvf.188.1200665441105; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:10:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.112? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m10sm5197942rnd.15.2008.01.18.06.10.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:10:40 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:04:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <20080117100051.4777de2a@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801181604.46835.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f7fe26fb-531e-4bfc-9e18-e1fc46053639 X-Archives-Hash: 78a56b30768e2021fd9aef121e3a50c7 On Friday 18 January 2008, Thufir wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:51 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user > >> base I posit that this would attract more developers. > > > > How do you draw that conclusion? How would attracting users who are > > unwilling to read documentation and get their hands dirty increase > > the number of potential developers? > > Taken to the extreme, if *all* the ubuntu users (to pick on ubuntu > for a minute) suddenly switched to gentoo I would expect the ubuntu > developers to follow. Nope. The Ubuntu developers would probably just carry on doing what they doing now - developing on Ubuntu. What makes you think they'd change? I'm getting the feeling that you think the whole world works the way you work and have yet to realize that other people are different from you. And that groups have different priorities to what you have. alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list