quoth the Chris Gianelloni: > Seriously, how about instead of these childish "if this happens, I'm > taking my toys and going home" attitudes,
As opposed to the childish "I don't want to hear from a few outspoken users so let's close up the list" attitude? > you instead try to determine > what you can do to improve a situation you see as bad for Gentoo with > one you see as positive. And what exactly is the bloody point if all of the contributions from users are going to rot in some queue until they are no longer relevant? Can you explain to me how giving the devs _more_ work to do is going to help Gentoo when getting user contributions, bugfixes, ebuilds etc incorporated in a timely fashion is already one of the largest problems IMO? Seriously, call us all childish if you want, but you need to recognize that some of us users are seriously concerned about being alienated due to this proposal. If you insist on shutting out users like this you are basically giving us all the finger. I would expect this treatment from a SuperMegaCorp software vendor, not from Gentoo. If I am still not clear, here is my opinion in one sentence: This is a very bad move which will do little but severely reduce the amount of goodwill from the user-contributors, and make it de facto more difficult, time consuming, and painful to contribute to Gentoo. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
