On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:54:50AM -0600, Daniel Goller wrote:
> so what is the consensus?
> 
> we have people who care and wish there was versioning (in whatever most 
> practical way this is realized)
> some who say which is the only possible way to do it and immediately say 
> they will not comply
> 
> some how all their negativity aside agree it would be lack of compliance 
> that would hinder the success of the idea
> 
> so can this be summed up that we as gentoo developers do not care enough 
> to do something that would allow us to prevent major breakage for users?
> that we do not care enough to demonstrate enough professionalism "in the 
> wild" to get people ever interested into something corporations 
> (whatever the final name of the product would be) would be interested in 
> testing?
> that we dont care enough that we have a process that costs fellow 
> developers money when a demonstration of gentoo simply doesnt work, and 
> the interested customer in turn be turned off by what they see?
> 
> is this how we want to present ourselves?
> 
> someone please tell me this is not what this thread shows, cause when i 
> go through it all, this is what i read.
> 
> i think this thread should continue under another name, and i will make 
> sure the new topic will be shorter and more to the point, another, new 
> point, just related, and i will try  to no longer reply to pointless, 
> purely negative, contructive criticism free comments, maybe those highly 
> annoyed devs could simply refrain from creating traffic unless they have 
> something to add, many should appreciate that, most likely..quietly
> 

The fact that people disagree with you does not make them 
unprofessional.

You are not helping your position with this approach. There really isn't 
any room for "do it my way or you're not being professional" in a 
technical discussion.

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Jon Portnoy
avenj/irc.freenode.net

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