Chowderheads [2004]

20 Apr 2017

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

if we are talking about people who are only able to install gentoo because of an automated, graphical installer, then we will get: a lot more ‘bug reports’ that are not ones. a lot more really really stupid questions (I wait for the day, someone asks, where he can find the gentoo-homepage), and no new developers (but a lot more work for the existing ones).

One might also imagine we’d get less questions on actually installing Gentoo and more on doing stuff with it. There I go again with my tricky logic.

All successful and useful projects get new people. It’s a fact of life and frankly if you aren’t, you’re doing something wrong. That holds true from the Gentoo project to the Roman Empire. If you can not integrate new people successfully into your organization, it will fail.

Gentoo has in fact from the very start been about making things easier. Easier to pick the packages you want, easier to upgrade, easier to custom build packages, easier to update etc files, etc. Gentoo has even gone out of its way to make better how-tos and is known in the Linux community at large for having just about the most useful and friendly forums.

Gentoo can either continue extending the infrastructure to support the people being attracted to a damn useful distro. Or clowns like you can attempt to keep Gentoo all to yourself with Jim Crow style exclusionary tactics.

kashani

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