From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I5l1V-0001iA-GR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:14:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l63GChvd010416; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:12:43 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l63G7P1U004081 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:07:25 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so2633081wah for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jJzUSE+GNfx7E51HJ94t4ZR6+/icvs2StQ3zSWX7bT3zqBNRXr5ZwzUSzJWjoOsDDiFlLFSH2C9JTl52Fis77QbEsj0Q71lfBu607Zse1edlehmyrlHvgzjDdggwKASPGd+YLmFYx5MxDQa/tEpsgHlMA9kYEgsWq29G3Zv6C/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=eoTjNQi3++d9KHmMamOvAv9m0uIere99caU4V6k4JAby0GsPMg1T8xIsjZGC7v39w0exBwLH/QJVvLJ1ge1mQ2tbvoI9J+lm8VnAZh6hUvOdaYgZQfD/mPgrL360H7ELQDXkp7dMyMNhWeeO62Fprr5t63ThyR/slQTwMh7/EFo= Received: by 10.114.180.1 with SMTP id c1mr6279022waf.1183478844322; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.110.15 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:07:24 -0700 From: Grant To: "Gentoo mailing list" Subject: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: d8923a63-85cc-416e-87c4-fba396777b96 X-Archives-Hash: d2493bdf9a5e5ab7e5e42137a594c929 In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. Is everyone still toeing that line? The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter hasn't been published in almost two months. Is Gentoo destined to be just another distro starved for contributors and struggling to stay up to date? If so, I really misjudged it. The meta approach of Gentoo is superior to any other in my mind, and I think it's growth and potential are being stunted by the "we don't need them" attitude which perpetuates Gentoo's lack of usability features for beginners. Gentoo needs as many users as possible to reach its potential. It's a short-sighted mistake to think that non-contributing users do Gentoo no good. Non-contributing users become contributors as time passes. Car mechanics all start as car drivers. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list