Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:56:02 -0500:
> Grant Goodyear wrote: >> Seemant Kulleen wrote: [Thu Oct 12 2006, 08:50:33AM CDT] >>> A typical example of the institutionalisation of the project [...] >> >> A minor correction here: Spider did receive the retirement-bug e-mails, >> but never knew it until today as his filters munched them. It doesn't >> change his argument that Gentoo is much less personal now than it was >> "back in the day", but it does, at least, make things look less >> malicious. > > I often wondered if people's filters would muck away such retirement > bugs sometimes. Perhaps devrel might send personal emails along side bug > emails just in case they don't watch their bug email that much. Even if they do see the bug mail, personal mails would give it the human touch once again. Even when one agrees with the ultimate outcome, most should agree that being run thru the system like so much grist for the mill doesn't feel so great. The human touch helps. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
