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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> Just to be more specific and clear wrt to community. I as a developer, |
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> not a Trustee. I get all kinds of help from the Gentoo community. |
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> Patches, bug fixes, pointing out mistakes/errors, providing |
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> improvements. It's invaluable, and at times more help than I get from |
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> fellow Gentoo developers. Which I have a couple open bugs, I can't get |
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> any devs to help me with. The recent ones I needed help on that are |
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> closed, the community/users/contributors came through on. |
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That is completely unrelated about adding random people to the foundation. |
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> For some reason it seems like what happens with adults forgetting they |
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> were kids. Developers seem to forget we were once users. We might one |
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> day return to being users. So should those that do not wield developer |
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> status not matter? |
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They are quite important, but that is unrelated to the foundation. |
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> Some of our longest contributing members to Gentoo Java, aren't devs, |
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> nor will they ever be. They don't want to be. Some even have their own |
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> overlays. So guess they should not have any say or input. |
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You just told me that their input has been treasured by the java team, |
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the fact they do not want to become developers while they are |
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maintaining an overlay is something that should be addressed, but is |
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completely off topic. |
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> There should not be this elitism with a divide between developers, |
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> users, contributors, sponsors, etc. We are all together the Gentoo |
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> community. Which the foundation as I understand it, was intended from |
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> it's inception to represent. |
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NO, the foundation is an US activity born to have people sponsoring us |
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get tax cuts. At least that was the main idea. |
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The other important activities would be make sure we do not lose out |
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trademark but IIRC it isn't currently property of the foundation. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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