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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:02:09AM +0200, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: |
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> Do we have to trust the people you have made commitments to, and which |
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> are going to be selected by gentoos sole FP entity (because that is the |
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> only thing you have been doing lately)? |
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> I wouldn't want to be part of that NFP board, because people could say |
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> that I'm one of guys you made a secret commitment with. |
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I think this is being paranoid. Daniel's intention here is to make sure that |
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the creation of the NFP doesn't take too long so that people *see* that |
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advances are made. Using a preliminary board of trustees until everything |
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settles is frequently used. This is clearly mentioned: |
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""" |
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This initial board of trustees will serve for one year from the |
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establishment of the Gentoo Foundation, after which point a the board will |
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be elected by the members (Gentoo developers.) After that, regular elections |
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will be held (election cycle TBD) to determine board members. |
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""" |
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The wording Daniel used is a bit unthoughtful (the "meet my commitments to |
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existing managers and developers") and should probably be read as something |
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like: |
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""" |
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There will be an initial board of trustees appointed which will guide the |
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NFP through its first year. To ease the transitioning, this board will |
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consist out of (a subset of) the current "top level managers" and a few |
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other developers which have contributed significantly to Gentoo. Note |
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that this board is initial and temporary and that elections will happen |
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when the NFP transition is finished. |
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""" |
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Or something similar. Don't try and take each letter in a word and put it |
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upside down - we are not formally deriving a proof for a mathematical |
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theorem, we are dealing here with a big, large project filled with motivated |
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people who want to work on whatever they like without having to go through |
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too much hassle. |
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People never had or have issues with coördinators (or managers or whatever |
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you like to call them) as long as those people don't try to hide themselves |
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behind rules and regulations and pretend to be more than just a developer |
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interested in the coördination (and therefore future) of Gentoo. |
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I'm very disappointed with what I had to catch up on on -core. I'm glad that |
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positive results are being created *again* which is a good sign for the |
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healthiness of this project. All issues we might have had have been resolved |
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in the past and will be resolved in the future as well. |
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Daniel: I agree with the spirit of your proposal. I don't personally care if |
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you have a "perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free use" of the "Gentoo" |
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trademark and "G" logo or a gentlemen's agreement. If you weren't trustworthy |
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I would've left Gentoo a long time ago. In this sense I think the former is |
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a better agreement as "a gentlemen's agreement" will lead to discussions |
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again. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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-- |
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^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. |
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(oo) Sven Vermeulen |
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