Distribution quote of the week [LWN.net]

Honestly, this seems a bit like hurting our users so that developers feel sorry for them and jump through hoops. We might as well threaten to kill kittens anytime the bug wrangler list goes over a certain threshold, or a GLSA stays open too long.

-- Rich Freeman

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Distribution quote of the week

Posted May 2, 2013 19:09 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (4 responses)

Is there a way to get more context on this quote? I clicked it and tried to read the thread, but that was not much more informative.

Distribution quote of the week

Posted May 2, 2013 19:46 UTC (Thu) by ris (subscriber, #5) [Link]

It looks like our thread link doesn't start at the top - which is here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2448/f...

Distribution quote of the week

Posted May 2, 2013 21:04 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

You can click "[thread]" at the bottom of the page to go to the start of the thread.

Distribution quote of the week

Posted May 6, 2013 17:34 UTC (Mon) by mgedmin (guest, #34497) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, no: that link goes to a subthread that begins with the quoted message. But then you can click on the "Subject:" in the bottom pane and *that* will give you the full thread.

(Unless the message was cross-posted to multiple lists, in which case you may get a 404. *sigh*)

I wish LWN's links pointed to the full thread from the get-go.

Distribution quote of the week

Posted May 6, 2013 19:21 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> Well, no: that link goes to a subthread that begins with the quoted message.

Yeah, the selected message is still the quoted one, but the top pane shows the entire thread, which is what I would prefer the link in the LWN article to go to.

> But then you can click on the "Subject:" in the bottom pane and *that* will give you the full thread.

That seems to do the same thing as the "[thread]" link, but I've never seen a 404 issue with "[thread]".