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I get that their design direction wasn't everyone's cup of tea, and I get why many abandoned Gnome 3. > politely interjecting with the occasional "we don't lik
by asoneth 4y ago
I get that their design direction wasn't everyone's cup of tea, and I get why many abandoned Gnome 3.
> politely interjecting with the occasional "we don't like gnome"
From my perspective these comments seem neither polite nor occasional, and they result in Gnome threads devolving into partisan arguments rather than technical discussions. Of course Gnome isn't the only lightning rod -- posts that mention Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, US national politics, systemd, etc also seem to inspire an inordinate number of posts that are argumentative and off-topic.
It's mostly just disappointing. I was honestly hoping for a discussion about what kind of people contribute to a large open source project instead of rehashing the endless circular debate about whether the Gnome Community is user hostile or not.
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- traverseda 4y agoI mean I could also argue that they're contributor hostile, but that would just be another rehash.
- asoneth 4y agoI'm not sure I agree that would be another rehash. A comment that draws from the data in the original blog post to make the case that Gnome is driving away new contributors seems like it would be interesting and on-topic, and could lead to a discussion about ways to attract and retain open source contributors. As it is, most of the points made in this thread could have been made in any prior thread with "Gnome" in the title. And they will probably be made again in subsequent Gnome threads, like some kind of Sisyphusian performance art.