On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:42:44 -0400 Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > Are you people serious? Let's ban nondevs from bugzilla then? Close > > #gentoo, disband PR, etc? Not sure if we can keep any sponsors > > then... > > ...or devs... > > Seriously, no users == no community. Why? Because devs don't get along > with each other well enough to qualify as a community. It's really the > untold masses that make Gentoo a community. What's one of the top > resources cited as the greatness of Gentoo? The wiki. Which isn't even > official or sanctioned, but that is instead run largely by the > community at large. > > Bah. This entire debate is extremely disheartening. How many devs out > there sprung from the ground pre-formed, and how many started out as > users in the community? *That* is the pool from which we draw our > ranks, from which we get our support and direction. This elitist > attitude is what drives the rationale devs to be hermits and just > answer to their small piece of the pie - because we don't give two > figs about who's ego is mightiest, just that we are producing > something useful that makes us happy, without breaking things for > those dependent on us, the users. > > Talk like this, especially from people I respected, makes me question > just what its worth to keep going. If Gentoo is only about the devs, > well, I'm happy with the way things are now, they work for me, so no > sense in working any further on perl-land. I think you're misinterpreting those statements. Consider if you have choose if you spend your time implementing a feature that you personally want to have or one that a user wants (and is of no use to yourself), which one would you choose, assuming that both have the same cost? It's all about priority, nothing more, nothing less. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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