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 1JFlrW-00010N-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:42:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C57FDE0A01; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25890E09EB for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76E165831 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.378 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.378 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.221, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5KgUJ2lhgEj6 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E5E6581C for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFlqw-0006Pj-DU for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:26 +0000 Received: from s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net ([70.79.204.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:26 +0000 Received: from hawat.thufir by s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thufir Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:41:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <20080111143332.4ccf33de@grolsch.ajiaojr.net> <200801171010.01508.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s01060016ec23af88.vc.shawcable.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9d227e99-c9a0-46ac-9d3e-9ee322caed77 X-Archives-Hash: 6016c071ce179c9c9ebc26cc300d64bf On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:10:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user base I >> posit that this would attract more developers. >=20 > Who says Gentoo does not already have a large user base consisting of > exactly the kind of users that are ideal for Gentoo? It has not been > established that this is not the case. Absolutely, the community support within Gentoo speaks to the distro=20 having, in my opinion, the best community. I'd like to see the quantity of Gentoo users increase partly because I=20 think it's so fantastic. -Thufir --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list