[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:27:48PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: > >> Would you please show a little respect to the people who developed >> the software you use every day. > > I have found that people are fine, it is groups of people who cause > the problems in the world. The gentoo dev community has a reputation > of releasing untested code, and when I mention a couple of severe > cases that shouldn't have even gotten near the door, let alone out of > it, I am told the ~ platform is testing.
Correct. > No it is not, or should not > be; What else should it be? > finished, but entirely different to release untested code. Maybe > getdelta is not from the core community; but did no one in the core > community think it good to report their changes? When the first > colors were added to emerge, did no one think hard coded magic > constants were wrong? When devs think it good to colorize everybody's > terminal without regard to long established UNIX custom of using just > simple plain text, I am told that gentoo is not UNIX. Exactly. > Good grief, > what an attitude! Yep, you've got quite an attitude. > When the gentoo dev community stops spouting nonsense about gentoo is > not unix, What are you talking about? You DO know, to what list you're writing to, don't you? Hint: There's no "dev" in the name of the list. > stops pointing fingers at third party software which was > written to work with gentoo software, and stops blaming users for > preferring white backgrounds, then they will have earned some respect. I guess earning respect from people like you is something, the Gentoo people could very well do without. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
