Has Slashdot gone super downhill or are my memories of the late 90s/early 2000s FOSS scene just tinged with rosy nostalgia?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/1619248/gtk-developers-call-for-help-to-finish-cross-platfor... has literally TWO productive comments -- mine, and a single vague reply to mine. The rest, including all the ones upvoted as "insightful", are trash-talk about GTK+, Gnome, Red Hat, or systemd.
Anyway, I got the Mac OS X port of the GTK+ OpenGL stuff mostly working, with patches in bugzilla for gtk+ and cairo. I had fun writing it at least. :)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/11/16/1619248/gtk-developers-call-for-help-to-finish-cross-platfor... has literally TWO productive comments -- mine, and a single vague reply to mine. The rest, including all the ones upvoted as "insightful", are trash-talk about GTK+, Gnome, Red Hat, or systemd.
Anyway, I got the Mac OS X port of the GTK+ OpenGL stuff mostly working, with patches in bugzilla for gtk+ and cairo. I had fun writing it at least. :)
Evan Prodromou likes this.
Downhill? Yes.
Slashdot went downhill 10-15 years ago.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2014-11-17T08:24:58Z
lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
Slashdot has gone downhill, yes, but so have the GTK+/GNOME projects. They HAVE been removing features and APIs without deprecation in minor versions, and are hostile to contributions/patches (case in point: why did you need to pull working patches from Bugzilla? why haven't they been merged already?).
The easiest thing to do is just say that Slahdot is a bunch of haters (it is), but that's ignoring the huge PR problem the GTK+/GNOME projects have—one they refuse to acknowledge or do anything about.
The easiest thing to do is just say that Slahdot is a bunch of haters (it is), but that's ignoring the huge PR problem the GTK+/GNOME projects have—one they refuse to acknowledge or do anything about.
uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs at 2014-11-17T17:30:41Z
lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
Well, they're in Bugzilla because .... where else would I put them? And they haven't been merged yet because they're incomplete and could still use some additional fixes. I found ebassi at least very welcoming both on IRC and Bugzilla.