On 12/22/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de> wrote: > no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact > that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails.
This is my favourite conspiracy theory as well, not the no-html-theories. We've all been through situations where there just aren't any people with an answer. We've already collected all the html/no-html flamewar-stuff in this thread, so we may as well collect the All-Time Favourite Gentoo Complaints. First one I and (Mr. Wong?) already threw out: lack of manpower / knowledge base. Second favourite one is that the devs are reluctant to mix us "proles" (users). Well, it's a users' list with some volume, so I can understand that they don't. The Gentoo Gnome dev team is 7 or 8 people (same size as Gentoo KDE team) according to the dev list, so it's not as Gnome is dead on Gentoo. Third one is the confusion of "where should I ask question?" -- mailing lists, forums or just file bugs in b.g.o? Mr. Dimlao apparently only used this one mailing list -- and I can understand why, the forums are ugly and terrible to use (IMHO phpbb or whatever it is, is terrible to use). Still, unlike this list, the forums seem to be quite actively perused by the devs, so given how clear he is in titling his messages etc, he could've probably gotten a response there. I still don't buy this "it's the HTML attachments"-theory. I think many people have jumped on this html-attachment theory for no purpose (no other flamewars going on? ;) ). *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you answer his questions about Gnome?* Unless you can then I'd place a large probability on the theory of currently missing the required knowledge on *this* list. The answer may be available by asking in, e.g., the forums. -- Arttu V.
