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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > I think that there's a big difference about any developer |
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> > being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and |
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> > create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any |
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> > review of the council. I agree that it can exists in the Github |
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> > account, or even in our own infrastructure, but say that Gentoo |
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> > supports it without a previous analysis of the council is wrong |
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> > IMHO. |
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> In practice there is no difference. |
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This thread demonstrates that there was significant *perceived* |
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difference, and as has been pointed out Greg was just the voice |
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of the internets. (Thanks Greg!) |
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In practise, it is a git repo with commits by a few individuals. |
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But because of where the git repo is located, because of the contents |
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of the commits, and perhaps also because of misunderstanding, it was |
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*perceived* to be something other than what it is. |
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I think it's important to be attentive when such misperception |
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occurs, both to be able to stop it from occuring again in the future, |
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and to attempt clarification of things as quickly as possible. |
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> About the only "sponsorship" Gentoo projects get most of the time |
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> is hosting, and considering that they stuck this one on Github |
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> they're not really even getting that. |
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The Gentoo brand is a lot more than infra's lovely hosting. |
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> That said, I see no reason why this project would be any less |
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> eligible for other forms of sponsorship than other projects are, |
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> assuming that somebody can make a compelling pitch for the Trustees. |
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I don't think the issue was ever with eligibility, but with how |
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$internet perceived that the Gentoo brand was acting. |
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Yes, that's layers of fail, but the world isn't big on facts. In the |
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end the brand that we all know and love got an unneccessary new dent, |
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and the only thing we can do is to learn from that, to try to avoid |
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that it happens again. |
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> However, there aren't "real" projects and "wanna-be" projects in Gentoo. |
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Is this a good thing? I think both yes and no. A case could certainly |
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be made for having sunrise projects, like there are sunrise ebuilds. |
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//Peter |
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