Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus
> less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to
> hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and
> spending time dancing around the lesser populace is time wasted on
> doing practical stuff ( While I'll admit theres got to be a half-way,
> or gentoo will never get any fresh blood, but I'd prefer to entice
> fresh blood from people who have some potential to improve the distro

Great post Kent.  I'd love to see more features to attract unskilled
users, but I'd hate to have that slow down the development of features
that I would actually use.

The main camps we seem to be divided into are:

1. we don't want unskilled users

and:

2. we do want unskilled users

and most align with #1.  It will be interesting to see how it turns
out.  I still think there is a huge long-term benefit to a large user
base, even if many of those users start out unskilled.

- Grant
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