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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:49:04 +0800 |
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> Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It should not appear as a black box, and effectively prevent normal |
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>> gentoo users and developers from contributing to decisions which may |
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>> have a great impact on their distro. |
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> The GLEP doesn't have a great impact. It's a purely internal matter |
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> that shouldn't be visible to users at all and should be very easy for |
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> developers to follow once implemented. |
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> Really, the idea that anyone can contribute and express a useful opinion |
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> is all very well, but it's terribly naive. Do you expect to be asked to |
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> give your opinion upon the proportion of zinc mixed in with the |
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> aluminium in your car? Do you tell your doctor how much thimerosal you |
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> want in your medicine? |
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Those are not analogous to open source software development, IMO. |
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People can't decide on those things. But they can and should be able to |
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influence on decision we are making here. |
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