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Hi, |
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Are we still going to be "dropping people to a shell so they can fix |
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their shit" for 2004.1? Has anybody taken a look at the ppc initrd, |
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which is simpler, commented and "shit"- & "idiot"- less? |
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Best regards, |
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Pieter Van den Abeele |
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Begin forwarded message: |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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> Date: Wed 14 Apr 2004 15:55:43 CEST |
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> To: gentoo-core@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: devrel procedure (long) |
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> |
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> Stewart Honsberger wrote: |
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>> I'm of the opinion we should forget positions, offices et al. and |
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>> remain an open, cooperative community. Allow people's strengths to |
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>> naturally take over to get problems solved. |
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> |
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> There needs to be some sort of structure in place or we will never be |
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> seen seriously in the eyes of people who need to use it seriously. It |
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> is bad enough that things like "dropping you to a shell so you can fix |
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> your shit" made it into the 2004.0 release, if everyone does whatever |
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> they want[1], then we are setting ourselves up for a very hobbiest |
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> distribution. Yeah, it may already be a hobbiest distribution for |
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> some of you, but for my employer it is a platform for our production |
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> environment. |
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> |
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> [1] - you're really free to do whatever you want anyway if you're |
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> willing to put the time and effort into it, but for the core Gentoo |
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> distribution, lines need to be drawn and enforced. |
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> Cheers! |
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> -Corey |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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> |
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> -- |
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