Regardless of the points being made or their validity, this is the long-standing problem with Gentoo: excessive pride and ego and too little inability to cooperate internally, much less externally. Too many people are treating every discussion (turned argument) as life-or-death and are unwilling to concede anything. Sometimes you have to say, "I disagree, but not enough to make waves about it."
This is why we've been bleeding old-guard developers (the quiet ones that got stuff done and didn't flame) for months and not gaining the people that carefully examine an environment before they commit. Some people just want to quietly go about their business and Do Things Right, not trudge through hundred-fatwa threads detailing the latest technical-turned-personal 'discussion'. For those of you doing the dev thing for CV points: which will your future employer appreciate more, fifty pseudo-technical flames or a few highly-informative documentation posts? A dozen new packages or a 20MB IRC log detailing what you hate about infra member $foo? Get over yourselves. Please. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
