Oh my, this is rich. Hope you don't mind Derek, but this bit of
wordsmithmanship is already making the rounds here internally...
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:59, Derek Glidden wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 00:47, Jim Lange wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:58, Derek Glidden wrote:
> >
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > You should hear my rant about GNOME vs. KDE Development Strategy....
> > >
> >
> > I'd like to hear your rant.
>
> heh... ok.
>
> Warning to readers: this is mildly offensive however it's not obscene,
> for most values of "obscene." On a flame-o-riffic scale of one to ten,
> it rates about a seventy-three.
>
> "here's the whole skinny once and for all on my opinions of KDE and
> GNOME developers. When I compare the two, here's what I imagine:
>
> KDE development - A big room somewhere in Europe with lots of chrome and
> glass and a great big whiteboard in the front with lots of tiny, neat
> writing on it. There are about 50 desks, each with headphones and
> pristine workstations, also with a lot of chrome and glass. The faint
> sound of classical music permeates the room, accompanying the
> clicky-click of 50 programmers typing or quietly talking in one of the
> appropriately assigned meeting areas. (Which of course consist of
> elegant contemporary white pine coffee tables surrounded by contemporary
> white pine and leather meeting chairs.) Coffee, tea, mineral water and
> fruit juices are available in the break area. At the end of the day,
> *everyone* checks in their code and the project leader does a "make"
> just to make sure it all compiles cleanly, but it's mostly only done
> from tradition anymore since it always compiles cleanly and works
> flawlessly. When all milestones have been met, and everything has been
> QA'd, (usually within a day or two of the roadmap that was written up 18
> months previous) a new KDE release is packaged up and released to the
> mirror sites with the appropriate 24-hour delay for distribution before
> being announced. KDE developers are generally between the ages of 16
> and 25, like art made of lines and squares and the colors white and
> black. They generally haven't served their mandatory 5 years of military
> service as required by their government, during which service there is a
> high likelihood their years of cultural dullness will crack and they
> will flee Europe to become terrorists for the sheer joy to be found in
> killing random strangers for no discernable reason. When/if they
> finally finish military/graduate uni and get real jobs, most of their
> salary will be taken in taxes so the socialist government can subsidise
> the care and feeding of the next generation of KDE developers, just like
> it did for them.
>
> GNOME development - An abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up
> as for a rave, electronica playing at about 5db louder than "my ears are
> bleeding and I'm developing an aneurism" volumes and the windows all
> painted over black so that the strobe and spotlights and lasers can be
> seen better. Computers, mainly made of whatever stuff has been
> exchanged for crack or scavenged from dumpsters behind dot-bombs, are
> scattered around on whatever furniture is available, which also consists
> of whatever stuff has been exchanged for crack or scavenged from
> dumpsters behind dot-bombs. There's no break area, but you may be able
> to bum a beer (or more likely something harder) off of someone else
> hanging around, and they'd probably be too jacked up on X, coke, acid,
> heroin, ether or all of the above to notice you. Core GNOME developers
> are heavy Ketamine users. Development strategies are usually determined
> by whatever light show happens to be going on at the moment, when one of
> the developers will leap up and scream "I WANT IT TO LOOK JUST LIKE
> THAT" and then straightarm his laptop against the wall in an
> hallucinogenic frenzy before vomiting copiously, passing out and falling
> face-down in the middle of the dance floor. There's no whiteboard, so
> developers will diagram things out in the puddles of spilt beer, urine
> and vomit on the floor. At the end of the day - whenever that is since
> an equal number of the programmers can be found passed out at any given
> time - or really whenever someone happens to think of it (which is
> rarely), someone might type "make" on some machine somewhere, with mixed
> results. Generally nothing happens, so he/she shrugs his/her shoulders
> and wanders off to look for someone who might have more
> pink/black-striped pills. Once in a great while, generally in the
> unpleasant time between the come-down from the last thing they took and
> before whatever it was they took just now comes on fully, someone will
> tar up a bunch of random files and post it on a website someplace it as
> the next GNOME release, usually with a reference to some kind of
> monkey. GNOME developers rarely live past 25, prefer "alternative" art
> - generally stuff made of feces that's "too edgy" for most people to
> "understand" or "like" - and their bodies can often be found in
> dumpsters or floating face-down in any sufficiently large body of
> water."
>
> FWIW - I think KDE is great but for some bizarre reason I primarily use
> GNOME as my desktop.
>
> --
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> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
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>
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>
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