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Robert Buchholz wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 2. August 2007 14:29, Steve Long wrote: |
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>> Personally I think ixnay should just become a gentoo dev and have |
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>> sabayon as his own private project (overlay, profile, make.conf) |
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>> within gentoo, while still keeping the bugzilla and forums separate. |
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>> Then he could contribute back to gentoo a lot more effectively. |
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>> [Please don't flame me, I have nfc what the politics are.] |
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> Gentoo devs will look at bugs that affect Sabayon users when they're |
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> reproducible in vanilla Gentoo environments. If not, how to support |
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> them? This is the same with all other unofficial overlays. |
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Agreed. |
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> As far as making ixnay a developer goes, I rather think he would not |
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> want to do that anyway, especially with his weird ideas to "fork away |
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> from [Gentoo's] bugs" [1] and give Gentoo back to drobbins. |
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Er i got his nick wrong it's lxnay sorry. Weird ideas don't preclude anyone |
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from contributing do they? |
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> Would having him as a developer do any good community wise? I don't |
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> know, but after reading [2, the last paragraphs], my guess is 'no'. |
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Yeah well I guess that's down to devrel now there are no proctors to react |
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in ml-time. I thought the recruitment process was supposed to take the |
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rough edges off? Not saying that applies to devs who've been around for |
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ages ofc ;) but credit to kloeri for the work he's put in over the last 2 |
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years at least. (as well as the other work, and no I don't want to go to |
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Massachussets.. ;) |
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I agree lxnay seems a bit brash (from the cursory look around I did earlier |
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on from those links) and, dare I say it, rather young. I don't think |
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anyone's nominating him for Council or anything tho. And he certainly seems |
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to produce code, so why not? (If he were willing, like i say I've never had |
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any contact with the guy.) |
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I just think the rumblings of ``let's reclaim Gentoo'' are an unwelcome |
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distraction. Personally I'd like drobbins to come back as a dev and get |
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used to the new setup (with a procmail kill rule for ciaranm ofc) rather |
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than waste everyone's energy with another pointless fork. If drobbins |
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thinks the guy is true to the early spirit of Gentoo, I'll take his word |
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for it. |
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ATM sabayon seems like a leeching organisation to me, as I made clear on the |
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forums. It's a shame, when lxnay could just be contributing properly. |
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Although I did read he regularly finds and fixes bugs in ebuilds (and he |
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has never suggested anyone pretend to be running anything but sabayon) it |
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doesn't change my opinion that sabayon is a direct competitor to gentoo, |
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since it isn't pure binary aiui (which would make it an application of |
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gentoo.) Why not just bring it into the fold? |
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