On 04/01/12 23:26, Peter Lewis wrote:
Nice to see that Godwin's Law [1] still applies on "proper" mailing
lists in 2012 ;-) Happy new year folks! Pete. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_la
Ahahaha
+1
On 01/04/2012 05:11 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
On Jan 4, 2012 6:26 PM, "Peter Lewis" wrote:
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
You are r
On Jan 4, 2012 6:26 PM, "Peter Lewis" wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> > > Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
> > > that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
> > > You are right, that the Trusted Users h
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 16:16:45 Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> > Never said the entire community was a democracy, I did say thought
> > that like a democracy people vote for the packages to be included.
> > You are right, that the Trusted Users have the final say on what
> > packages get included, I n
On 01/04/2012 01:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Don Juan wrote:
On 01/04/2012 08:14 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:25:40 -0500
Jonathan Vasquezwrote:
[...]
Just because a person didn't go to
medical school, doesn't mean that they can resea
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
Are you sure TUs pay attention to votes (apart from the minimum required
>> number)? I always just pulled the packages I wanted...
>>
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repos
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 05/01/12 07:14, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
>>> wrote:
That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
Same
On 05/01/12 07:14, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
>> wrote:
>>> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
>>> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for packages
>>> for
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
>> wrote:
>>> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
>>> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for pa
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Karol Blazewicz
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
> wrote:
>> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
>> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for packages
>> for inclusion into the community repo
>
> Errr, no. It'
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
wrote:
> That's how democracy works. By listening to it's citizens.
> Same goes with the AUR, and when people vote for packages
> for inclusion into the community repo
Errr, no. It's still up to devs and TUs to include a package in the repos.
Also
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Don Juan wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 08:14 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:25:40 -0500
>> Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Just because a person didn't go to
>>> medical school, doesn't mean that they can research and learn anything
>>>
On 01/04/2012 08:14 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:25:40 -0500
Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
[...]
Just because a person didn't go to
medical school, doesn't mean that they can research and learn anything
in the field of medicine. That logic is ridiculous, and as we have and
will exp
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:25:40 -0500
Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> [...]
>
> Just because a person didn't go to
> medical school, doesn't mean that they can research and learn anything
> in the field of medicine. That logic is ridiculous, and as we have and
> will experience in our lives, applies towar
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> You are misunderstanding my goals and what I've said.
>
> I said that I'm trying to help people find and use Arch. Whether they
> are expert users from other distros, or they are Noobies who are
> "willing to read documentation". If a perso
2012/1/4 Angel Velásquez :
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> Again, as i've saying before, i don't know who the hell said that the
> natural replacement of ubuntu is Arch .. out community is people who
> like to read, and people who like to investigate .. not people who
> like s
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On 04/01/12 09:54, Peter Cannon wrote:
> On 04/01/12 03:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>
> Carry on doing what *you* want not what others want you to do. I
> too joined "The pain of making tea." that is Arch Linux due to the
> statement that used to be
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:
>
> Ignorance should never be an excuse for a rude response, at least when
> ignorance isn't accompanied by the obvious willingness to remain
> ignorant.
Epic quotation, coudn't agree more.
And as Don said, I think that a Linux user doctor
On 01/04/2012 05:52 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:
Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you
try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with
you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you
try to do it anyways because searching for
> Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you
> try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with
> you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you
> try to do it anyways because searching for information, and finding a
> solution tend
On 04/01/12 03:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
Carry on doing what *you* want not what others want you to do. I too
joined "The pain of making tea." that is Arch Linux due to the statement
that used to be on display;
*Q)*When I run “pacman –sync” it comes up with “could
not open sync database:rep
On 4 January 2012 16:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
> Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you
> try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with
> you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you
> try to do it anyways because search
On 11:21 Wed 04 Jan , Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Splitting the thread (sorry I use gmail, so it won't split for you
> guys on mutt or whatever)...
Nah, it's fine for mutt.
On 04/01/12 21:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
>
> Those are my worthless cents as well I suppose :).
>
Not so worthless I think. Is good to discuss this stuff in the open.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Pham Bao Trung
wrote:
> @Jonathan Vasquez
>
> I must say that I totally support your point of view. I have seen some
> TU/devs/geeky users showed bad temper, mocking on newb at #archlinux who
> really came there to seek for help and wanted to switch to Arch. They j
@Jonathan Vasquez
I must say that I totally support your point of view. I have seen some
TU/devs/geeky users showed bad temper, mocking on newb at #archlinux who
really came there to seek for help and wanted to switch to Arch. They just
made them go away rudely. Their point is that Arch is not for
On 01/03/2012 07:25 PM, Jonathan Vasquez wrote:
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez
wrote:
I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are
newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have
willi
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Arch's niche is about control and simplicity, and making it
> 'newbie-friendly' (whatever that means) would compromise that.
The 'whatever that means' part is, I think, the important aspect here.
What does it mean? Is newbie-friendliness providi
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Jonathan Vasquez
wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez
>> wrote:
>>> I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are
>>> newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As l
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez
> wrote:
>> I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are
>> newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have
>> willingness and determination to learn, that
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Vasquez
wrote:
> I've been doing things to attract users to Arch. Whether they are
> newbs or not, because I want people to learn. As long as you have
> willingness and determination to learn, that is the important thing.
> The resources are out there, peo
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