So I'm told debian has one of these types of MLs, probably where the flames burn
bright enough to have earned a star designation from the IAU. Given what's been
going on lately, and with calls from myself and others (i.e., mcummings) to get
back on track and actually like, you know, develop something, I think it's high
time we create this list ourselves.
What goes on it?, why the flames of course. Every last ember, hot coal, glowing
developers, and any kittens having reached critical mass. We leave the new
developer introductions on -dev, but any developer leaving and wanting to say
goodbye, should consider posting their bit on -politics, because that's lately
been the reason for leaving. Anything hot button, hot topic, divisive,
non-development, etc. Especially license debates. Ohhh yes, the license
debates definitely belong here.
This'll probably kill -dev off completely, unless we start developing again.
But hey, I for once wouldn't mind a quiet gentoo-dev folder in my thunderbird
client.
So who's up for it? We can even divide ourselves into Red Devs and Blue Devs!
Blue Devs will, of course, be liberal, very energy conservative (i.e., no
Octanes for you guys!), Pro-Choice (Portage or Paludis or Pkgcore, it's a dev's
right to choose!), and most importantly, they'll favour any legislation from the
Council that bans devs from smoking. You know, the kind of smoldering that
happens before a dev bursts into flames?
And the Red Devs? Well, they'll be on the other side of the fence. They'll
blow the electric bill like the space shuttle burns fuel. They'll also be
Anti-Portage (it's Paludis/Pkgcore or else). And the flames? We're talking
Firebats from StarCraft here. Need a light?
See, this is fun already! We can hold debates where one side rips the other,
conventions where the egos of one side get inflated bigger than the Hindenburg
(and lots of confetti is thrown about), And maybe even a few scandals, like
discovering one die-hard Blue Dev secretly runs a 8-way Opteron system with a
15-disk RAID6 array and 5 CRT monitors, or something.
We will have to fill a few positions, though. We'll need a flip-flopper for
starters (the one dev who randomly changes his opinion when cornered). We'll
also need a dev who skipped the Freenode War a year or two ago (when Bantown
attacked, and they ran away screaming because of the netsplits and Squits and
lilo impersonators). And maybe a dev who secretly dabbles in another OS....like
Wind...err, Ubuntu!
So anyways, I'm all for this list, humour aside. It's blatantly obvious people
need a place to vent at times, and I think that by separating the politics from
the technical discussion, it might help in some way. Yes, it'll also be the
source of many problems too. I can't envision what they might be, but I know
they'd exist.
Anyways, thoughts?
--Kumba
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands
do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond
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