On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:26 +0530, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, > > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun > > working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big > > reformation > > A well considered and thoughtful message. Reinvigorating communities is > hard, and I hope the rest of the Gentoo developer community will find > inspiration from the gentle encouragement to be positive, even if it > turns out the specific ideas aren't the direction you want to go. > > For all that the original poster got hammered about the stage4 thing, as > a long time Gentoo advocate I must admit that the constant stream of > negativity connected with so many developers getting upset and leaving > in a relatively short period of time is vaguely unsettling. It's good to > see other developers noting that they are happy - it balances things. >
OK, I'm a happy developer. > One of the hallmarks of Gentoo has been whole tree co-ordination and the > fact that developers are able to cover for each other is really rather > cool. Regardless of any structural changes you might make, this > characteristic co-ordination and co-operation is what has made Gentoo an > impressive distribution and so I hope you manage to maintain this spirit > in the years to come. > > AfC > Bangalore > Thanks for the kind words; positive posts are always welcome. :) I believe it is very much our intent to "maintain this spirit [of co-operation]". Regards, -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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