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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto |
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> <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote: |
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>> (c) has irked enough developers and users that people pushed council to |
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>> update the policy about the use of ChangeLogs. |
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> Yes, and I'm surprised that these same developers pushed towards a |
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> negative solution (kick productive people out) rather than a positive |
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> solution (move to git). |
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Getting developers to follow policy and common sense is a people |
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problem. Git won't fix that - at best it might help with this |
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particular issue but not the next 14 that will come up. |
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I'd highly recommend listening to Donnie's "Assholes are killing your |
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project" talk. I think we've come a long way from some of the |
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problems in the past. I think that speaking up on lists when you |
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don't like a policy is healthy for the distro. However, until policy |
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is changed it must be followed - especially for something as trivial |
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as this. |
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The second-to-last thing I want to see is productive developers |
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quitting Gentoo over policy frustrations. The last thing I want to |
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see is a culture where anybody just does whatever they want to. Such |
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a culture turns off far more potential future developers than it keeps |
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around. Gentoo is already a very hands-off distro - just about any |
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dev can do just about whatever they want to improve things and we all |
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tend to go along with it as long as they're making a positive |
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contribution. OpenRC is stable, some people are talking about getting |
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systemd working and others swear that they'll never run it, others |
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spend time making Gentoo work on everything from Win32 to BSD to |
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Plan9, and others look to improve the hardened/selinux experience. |
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The number of rules that I'd consider "restrictive" in Gentoo is very |
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small compared to more top-down organizations - we all do what we want |
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and the users get to choose with some basic safeguards to preserve the |
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mainstream experience. There really is no reason to pitch a fit over |
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the few rules we have in the big scheme of things. |
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Rich |
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