Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 03:11 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> What I find absolutely astounding is how much power Ciaran (we all know
> the elephant in the room that motivates this newest council
> announcement) wields over Gentoo.

*sigh*

Why is it that everyone always assumes everything the Council does is
"out to get Ciaran" rather than something we see as a good global
solution to our current problems?

Here's a little hint for all of you conspiracy theorists out there.

If all we wanted was to get rid of Ciaran, we'd just have a fucking vote
to get rid of Ciaran and make all of this *SO* much simpler on
ourselves.

We're trying to solve the problem of people, *ALL* people, treating each
other like complete crap on our lists.  The "problem" has been an issue
of discipline.  We've simply got too many people who are too scared to
take any actions to resolve these problems.  Why do you think Developer
Relations has all of these procedures and policies for retiring
developers?  Is it because we need all of that to determine if someone
has crossed the line?  No.  It's because we have a large number of
developers (or possibly even just a very vocal minority) who complain
about every single damn thing anyone ever does and it has been much
simpler to make up these ridiculous guidelines and rules to follow in an
attempt to curb the dissenters than it is to just deal with them.

I say drop the rules to something simple that makes sense, boot the
troublemakers, and ignore the dissenters.  I'll gladly help anyone make
up any procmail recipes they need to filter their mail.  Let's get back
to developing and leave the politics to Obama and Hillary.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation