On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You give me too much credit :-) > > > > There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, > > Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), > > James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly > > recall right now. > > > > This here mailing-list has got the most varied and highest skills of > > any technical list I've ever subscribed to. We have regular desktop > > users, folks who work in server rooms, devs, owners of software > > companies, regular sysadmins, fellows who ship embedded devices, and at > > least one of everything in between. > > > > I don't mean to go all fuzzy feel-good here, but it's an honour to be > > able to communicate and interact with so many skilled people for so many > > years.
I agree here. There are a few other lists with people with really good technical skills. But some of those are quite strict with what is on-topic and what isn't. On this list, we tend to cover anything that is related to computers. > That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing > some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a > year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that link again. > Here it is: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml Nice, I'm in the top 10 :) > We have a new comer. lol > > I think the mailing lists, and forums, are one of the key features of > Gentoo. The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to > one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few > weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep > up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of > stuff to document. Documenting Gentoo is difficult. I think this list is a good start for documentation though. > If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations? -- Joost
