Re: [gentoo-nfp] drobbins, leadership, etc.

[Luca Barbato]

John Alberts wrote:
>> There was talk of a vote on -core.
> Unfortunately, it's completely private, so the community has no idea what is
> being discussed.  I think this is the real problem.  Lack of communication.
> Lack of transparency.  -core should at least be read only and archived for
> users to see what's going on.

No, you'd be disappointed to see there isn't nothing that secret beside
some personal data here and there ^^; Once we got something good to say
outside we'll do. There isn't any need to rush, really ^^;

>
> With the lack of communication and updates on the Gentoo front page and lack
> of GWN releases, and a missed 2007.1 release, users get the impression that
> nothing is happening and things must be declining.  Happy Gentoo users get
> outraged because this wonderful distribution *seems* to be withering away
> because of the lack of transparency and communication.   When in fact, as
> many have pointed out, new and updated ebuilds are put in portage every
> day.  Lot's of devs are constantly at work in the background keeping things
> going, but there's a lack of people to keep the community informed properly.

Everybody could step up helping gathering informations for the gwn or
something similar not even hosted at gentoo.

> I support bringing drobbins back because my hope is that he will help
> implement the needed direction and transparency that Gentoo needs to
> succeed; however, drobbins needs to elaborate on what his intentions are and
> how he plans to implement these changes before any decision is made.  I
> would hope that he joins this discussion to help provide a good solution for
> everyone.

Hope seems the keyword, are you that despaired to rely on hopes? =/

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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