Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 02/22/15 12:08, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >> * Fun is lost for a long time. > > This is is extremely false.
It's a very subjective matter. I don't doubt that Gentoo is fun for some or many or even all developers. I also have no doubt that the process of becoming a developer isn't fun for Nicolas. The two are not mutually exclusive, and it's important to allow room for both to exist, and focus on if and how things can change to be even better for everyone involved. Nicolas wrote a subjective email which was a little tongue-in-cheek, in response to a request by a novice. It's important that there is room for Nicolas to feel the way he does (must not say that he is wrong in how he feels) *and* to also express it. I personally also don't find Gentoo fun. It's interesting and educational and powerful but not fun. Using Gentoo's state-of-the-art tools I get to discover bugs nobody has ever seen before, because I do something that nobody has done before and (upstream) developers are either incompetent or lazy or both. Fixing problems caused by others is not fun, but at the end of the day that is what open source really is all about. //Peter
