On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:10:02PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > > The number of times I have been mocked and derided and laughed at on IRC > > is staggering. "That's not a real distro". "That's not maintained by > > real GNOME people". "Don't use that" "Switch distros!" > > I see nothing wrong with the latter two: > "Don't use that" > "Switch distros!" > > That is perfectly valid advice. You need various things in your > distribution to help GNOME development. I would not advise anyone to use > Ubuntu anymore when they want to get involved with GNOME. > Can you explain to me how using Ubuntu makes getting involved with GNOME development harder or wrong (couldn't extract that out of your msg) > > GNOME should run on any distribution, but if a distribution has a big > focus and is known to be problematic to do development upon, advice on > that is a good thing. > We make it a problem where its not. We could harvest lots of talent from the Ubuntu community if we did not act like snobs and look down upon them. > > The first 2 statements are not good though: > "That's not a real distro" > "That's not maintained by real GNOME people" > > Though even the latter I could explain in a more 'assume mean well' way. > > Hope that if you get bad behaviour, you do speak with those people > privately. > -- > Regards, > Olav > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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