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
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