On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Paul Belanger wrote: > I'm sure not all debian developers feel that way, if that is the case, why > release a quality product at all? I'm not a developer but I certainly care
Because some of us care for quality no matter how many users are there. Just remember that the attitude that gave our website that minimal look is everywhere in Debian. That said, I have nothing against someone who cares about it doing a website face-lift either, as long as it doesn't make the website any worse. > heard of it? The project homepage gives a good first impression. Think about > it, if you were looking to hire someone for a job and knew nothing about the > people you were interviewing....one guy was dressed in a nice suit another > in bummy clothes what would your first impression be? I don't see any That the guy with a nice suit doesn't know what he is getting into, and when I need him to crawl under the racks at 03:00 in the morning because stuff blew up, I might not be able to count on him. After all, I want engagement, high motivation, good team work skills, and technical excelence, not looks. I am not hiring models or direct sales people. I need IT warriors. That's why you interview people very carefully, the guy could have shown up in a suit because he was under the wrong assumption that it would be bad for his chances if he showed up in casual clothing (but looking reasonably well kept). This goes for users looking for a distro too. If he is so moved by appearances, then Debian is probably the *wrong* distro for him. And our website may not be in a suit, but it is well kept enough to let people know Debian ain't just another mess of packages. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]