On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:37 +0200, Michael Krelin wrote:
That was my thought as well. We (the developers) owe nothing to the
community at large. We are volunteers, and if we want to treat Gentoo as
our own personal toy (which we currently aren't), then so be it.
Of course Gentoo owes to the community a lot. A lot of its progress,
progress of the applications included, etc. But it's not a matter of
obligation. Being nice to others is a nice thing to do and a way to look
better too. The opposite is... well, the opposite.
Well said...
Remember that if we really didn't give a crap about the community, we
wouldn't be writing open source software. If we didn't care about the
users, we wouldn't release our software to them. We wouldn't have a bug
tracker, forums, and all the other things that we do and maintain solely
for the community.
I didn't doubt Gentoo attitude towards community. This is why statements
like the one above strike me as exceedingly out of place.
To phrase it in another manner that might make more sense, any given
developer is going to be more interested in fixing/changing what is
important or interesting to them than what some group of users wants
them to fix/change.
This is an attempt to make sense of the statement, which, interpreted
this way is absolutely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Love,
H
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