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On 08/05/2011 08:22 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Markos Chandras |
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> <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Right, exactly what I am saying. A single developer has to put his |
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>> effort to push things forward. Last time I remember something |
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>> similar was when Ben (yngwin) tried to introduce changes and he was |
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>> "forced" to retirement. Awesome. You know very well that if a |
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>> single person tries on his own to change things, he will lose |
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>> motivation sooner or later. |
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> So, here's the thing. If a huge number of devs are against an idea, |
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> then it is probably best NOT to approve it unless it is just a |
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> matter of bikeshedding. |
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You probably do not remember the case. A lot of people were supporting |
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his ideas. That was not the problem. |
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> What is the alternative? One guy wants to make a huge change to |
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> Gentoo. Most don't agree. Democratically elected council is thus |
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> unlikely to back it. Instead suppose we have a dictator for the |
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> year or whatever and he happens to support it, so he issues an edict |
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> that the one guy is the prophet for this year. |
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I am talking about situation that everybody agrees yet there is nobody |
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to step up and move it forward. |
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> Let's look at the whole /usr thread. It started out with lots of |
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> shock and general opposition with one or two guys pushing for a |
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> change. They than brought forward arguments and I'd judge from |
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> recent comments that they won over a good chunk of the dev population |
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> - now we're just haggling about the how and not arguing so much over |
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> to-FHS or not to-FHS. By the time the council is asked to do |
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> anything (if they even need to get involved) there will probably be a |
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> clear majority consensus. That's how you drive change. |
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I am very interested to see if a solution will ever come up from that |
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thread. |
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/me shuts up and goes back to his corner |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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