On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > > Signs are all around. Lots of posts about packages up for grabs etc... > Of course I am the one killing Gentoo. Despite having been gone for > years. Not posting for months etc. > > People need to wake up. The stats are poor. >
You're certainly not the problem, but just a symptom. The fact that everybody feels they either lack the power or shouldn't use their power to do something about nonsense like this is a larger issue. Either way the people complaining about the things that are wrong with Gentoo are doing little to inspire people to bother fixing them. If you said that a healthy Gentoo was good for your business half the devs would be tempted to sabotage their own packages just to give you headaches. Ditto for many of the others who complain that "Gentoo is dying." One of the downsides of adhering to the spirit of being community based is that these kinds of battles never really get resolved until a lot of people choose to walk away. In the end, those who contribute tend to do so because they care about the people will benefit from those contributions (including, but not limited to, themselves). As a result, a single complaint is probably worth 100 thank-you's as far as the impact to the overall project goes. It is unfortunate for everybody, because in a perfect world those who complain should be able to voice their concerns, and those who contribute should be able to feel good about their contributions regardless of the complaints. In the world we actually live in, peace often seems to be found only through avoidance. -- Rich
