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James Laslavic wrote: |
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> A lot of people are talking about how "There shouldn't just be one |
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> person!" Well, couple things. |
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> The biggest issue that these people have forgotten is that as it is |
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> right now, there is only one trustee. All the others have retired or |
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> been AWOL for a while now, and the same goes for the rest of the |
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> foundation, pretty much. |
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> And if being democratic is the big goal, then don't forget that the |
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> community overwhelmingly supports his return. |
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> If you want to create a system of checks and balances, then great! Bring |
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> your ideas to the table when we have enough people showing up to pass |
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> this kind of legislation! But right now, we've got to face the facts: |
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> 1) Things are not getting done. |
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> 2) Gentoo is losing developers. |
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> 3) Potential developers are choosing not to join. |
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> 4) The current Gentoo foundation has had several months to fix all the |
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> above. |
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> 5) Daniel Robbins offering to come back is not happening out of the blue |
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> because "he feels like he wants power," but is happening in response to |
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> the dire situation painted by the above issues. |
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> There are developers who want to see him return, and there are |
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> developers that don't. This is normal. However, take a look at the |
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> numbers. The people that stayed when he left will likely consist of |
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> people that don't want to see him return because, after all, the reason |
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> they didn't leave with him is because they weren't on his side then. As |
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> such, it's not really very representative of anything, as any pollster |
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> or statistician can tell you. When you look at the entire Gentoo |
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> community though including all the developers that left back then and |
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> all the developers that do not want to join the current Gentoo, it |
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> overwhelmingly supports Daniel Robbins' return. |
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I'm afraid you don't have way to back such bold claims. |
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point 1 to 3 and thus 5 are quite false and I have number to back my |
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claim (and since they are public in our website you have just to read |
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them), I have no idea about point 4. |
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Please give us a bit of trust. We _may_ know better. |
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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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