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[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

What if you need to file a bug? What if you have a question on the config that's not easily answered by the docs? If you never, ever find bugs and never, ever have questions, then sure, separate the two. There are genuinely people like that, but they're not common. If you're one of them, then I'm genuinely glad for you.

My opinion is this: You use software. You don't use people, but you sure as hell rely on them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's a better opinion than mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Which is why you should only care about the personal opinion of those people when it actually relates to that reliability.

I don't care whether Linus Torvalds likes disrespecting whichever company or people he might want to give the middle finger to, or throw rants in the mailing list or mastodon to attack any particular individual, so long as he continues doing a good job maintaining the kernel and accepting contributions from those same people when they provide quality code, regardless of whatever feelings he might have about whatever opinions they might hold.

You rely on the performance of the software, the clarity of the docs, the efficiency of their bug tracking... but the opinions of the people running those things don't matter so long as they keep being reliable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Just do them how you would do with any other project. You really acting like it's some alt right group. It's just a edgy chronically online 20 yr old dude lol. The community is pretty normal. Only weird things you would see is edgy messages in announcements channel.