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 1JFlv6-00019c-2p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7C16E0A97; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B55E0A90 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE16764C2E for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.388 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.388 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.211, 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 PougCZ3s-BxU for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:12 +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 E8E7064BFE for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFluQ-0006cQ-VS for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:02 +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 07:45:02 +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 07:45:02 +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 07:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <6142e6140801110037p7d5167c5y619b318ba1bf652e@mail.gmail.com> <1200041896.10339.13.camel@localhost> <20080111091237.GB12107@localhost> <1343558.gq7T5pozvP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <20080111071549.4677caa8@osage.osagesoftware.com> <47876E63.3010009@bellsouth.net> <20080111143332.4ccf33de@grolsch.ajiaojr.net> <20080117100051.4777de2a@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> 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: 8a1047ee-8dbf-44a5-81b1-f56df38de207 X-Archives-Hash: 2eb8a20c14c2ce2a208b823be674890c 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. >=20 > 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=20 minute) suddenly switched to gentoo I would expect the ubuntu developers=20 to follow. -Thufir --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list