Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
On 19 July 2010 01:27, Duncan<[email protected]> wrote:
Dale posted on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:43 -0500 as excerpted:
It always seemed to me that people want to send threads to -project for
them to just go away. Once a thread goes to -project, it just whithers
on the vine and nothing much happens. There may be a need for -project
but if almost no one is going to be there, there is no point sending
threads to it. Maybe developers should be required to subscribe to
-project so that even if a thread is sent there, they still get to see
the postings and deal with the issues that are being raised.
I think that was the point. Having the list and telling people the topic
belongs there is the polite way of telling them their output's better
directed to /dev/null (which is of course the the geeky *ix way of saying
"shutup already!"), without actually restricting someone's right to make
their point... just that they might as well be posting to their private
diary for the number of others that'll actually read it.
Yeah, that's exactly a thread that belongs to -project and not -dev.
I think you may be missing the point of Duncan's reply. My point is,
when someone doesn't want someone with a different way of looking at
things to post on this list, they tell them to go to -project. They
seem to think that some people are stupid and won't realize that what
they are really saying is to "go away" and/or "shut up". Thing is, some
people are actually smart enough to see what is going on and what that
means. They sometimes go away, far away.
Then some people wonder why, just why, Gentoo has the reputation that it
does. I don't wonder myself. I figured that out a good long while ago.
Dale
:-) :-)
