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On 11:23 Fri 10 Jun , Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On 6/10/2011 8:48 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > My kids are finally old enough that I have free time, so I'd also like |
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> > to run for the council again. |
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> > - getting rid of policies that were created for a single incident, |
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> > because they should only exist for patterns of repeated problems. |
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> Can you elaborate on this? I cannot vote in the election, but I am |
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> curious in any case. |
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A common problem in Gentoo is feeling like a one-time problem can't be |
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fixed without making a big policy about it, why it can't be done, what |
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will happen if it's done again, etc. If you've been around Gentoo for a |
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while and start reading through our developer docs, you'll be able to |
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connect a specific name and instance with pretty much every line that |
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says something like "Don't do stupid thing X" and "Don't do ridiculous |
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thing Y." |
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I think part of this is rooted in a fear, for lack of a better word, to |
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take personal responsibility for an action; instead, people want a |
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rulebook to point at and say "That's wrong" so the rulebook is the bad |
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guy. |
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But rulebooks should only be for the common cases, the patterns, the |
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problems that keep coming up over and over. One-time problems only |
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deserve one-time solutions. |
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> Also, I would like to officially nominate dberkholz, in case nobody has |
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> done so yet. |
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Yay! |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |