9.04 ??

[Thomas Fisher]

On Sunday 26 April 2009 03:05:43 pm beejunk at gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2009 5:18pm, "Cory K." <coryisatm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > aYo Binitie wrote:
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> > It's not up to me anymore though I carry influence. Jaunty was my last
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> > release doing anything in a *official* capacity. I have other very
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> > important life matters to attend to for now.
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> > The project in a fragile state atm and people poppin' off because their
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> > frustrated won't solve anything. On the contrary, it could just make the
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> > remaining guys say "F**k it.".
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> > This release is the best we could make it. You don't like it, learn what
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> > you need to to make things better.
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> > -Cory K.
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> Look, since we're on the subject of tone, I'm not sure why people on the
> dev team here continue to waste their time being insulted. I mean, for
> godssake, it's the internet. These things happen all the time.
>
> And for that matter, how do you even know that Mac's remarks were flippant?
> There's a chance that the he/she's the most meager person ever, and if you
> heard them say the same remarks in person then they would come across as
> very humble. Maybe right this moment they feel bad because they realize
> they're e-mail was taken the wrong way. EVERYONE knows that tone doesn't
> translate on the interwebs. I thought everyone on the planet was over this
> already?
>
> And to end my rant, you respond to the people who provide helpful
> criticism, and you ignore the rest. Don't feed the trolls and all that. No
> reason to ever be insulted by an e-mail.
>
> -Brian
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Matter of perspective?
  It becomes very easy to loose sight of the entire Open Software development 
and the multitudes of contributions that were, are and will be essential for 
this overall OS phenomena to continue. As a frequent visitor to the LAU list 
it continues to add a breadth to the audio vision. The Debian contribution 
certainly enables much of the Ubuntu effort. The legal beagles certainly are 
handy. GNU almost gets lost in the huge contributions from all continents. 
The untold Artists, Authors, Documenters, etc. etc. etc.  Keeping up with 
what is happening in the Linux atmosphere becomes almost a full time task 
even with a good aggregator. The new Linux user coming from Mac or MS with a 
multitude of possible levels of skill. Seems like an impossible dream at one 
level, but having had the chance to see this all come about over the past 14 
years, What a wonderful thing this has become. I hope it will continue.
Tom