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On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:06 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> These are the things that I see argued about often; do you try to add |
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> tons of packages? Do you try to remove packages? Do you try to keep a |
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> balance. Why does the tree contain unmaintained and broken packages? |
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> Why does no (developer) care? Do you cater to users? Do you cater to |
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> ourselves? Do you target the desktop? Do you target embedded users? Do |
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> you target servers? Do you target 'release early, release often' or do |
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> you target stability and QA? |
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You're looking at everything too narrow-minded. Do we cater to users? |
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Developers? The answer is yes to both. Do we cater to desktop? |
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Embedded? Again, the answer is both. Trying to push Gentoo into some |
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single-minded narrowly-focused vision is ignoring many of the facets of |
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Gentoo that make it unique. We must play to our strengths. We are |
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quite diversified and I think that is one of our strengths. Trying to |
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force everyone into some cookie-cutter mold is not in our best long-term |
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or even short-term interest. |
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> I don't recall hearing about lots of anything. I don't claim to having |
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> read every meeting log however. |
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I hope you also don't claim to have read every conversation any Council |
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member has ever had with another. Not all ideas are fleshed out at the |
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meetings. Some are simply not mature enough to be brought up to anyone. |
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Some, we decide, are simply crap, or unusable. I know I've come up with |
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plenty of things that once discussed with someone else, turn out to be |
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complete crap. ;] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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