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On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:28 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: |
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> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:11:11 +0100 |
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> Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name> wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:43:12 Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > Nope. What I see as a problem is that the primary author and |
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> > > current de facto maintainer is so much of an asshole that he was |
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> > > forcibly removed from the Gentoo project, which PMS is supposed to |
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> > > be written for, and has ostracized (at least) one of the package |
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> > > manager's development team with his constant not-so-subtle |
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> > > attacks. Quite frankly, I'd prefer see Gentoo take control over |
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> > > the specification that defines the most important single feature of |
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> > > Gentoo and remove the non-Gentoo developers from its development. |
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> > > No offense, but you're not a Gentoo developer any longer and you |
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> > > shouldn't have a say in how *we* manage ourselves. You're more |
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> > > than welcome to contribute code, fork, or whatever the hell you |
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> > > want. This is open source, after all, but that doesn't mean you |
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> > > should be allowed to hold the position of power over Gentoo that |
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> > > you've been granted. |
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> > |
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> > I would like to see Gentoo grow some balls and start banning people |
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> > from -dev and other media used. I don't mean temporary bans, I mean |
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> > for life. |
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> > |
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> > Yes, it's not nice. Yes, Gentoo should be open for all and encourage |
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> > participation from all. However, some people have demonstrated time |
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> > and time again over quite a number of years that they wont change no |
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> > matter what. These people are posionous [1]. |
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> Slightly ironic for me to suggest this, but... |
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> It is the gentoo-dev mailing list, restrict posting to gentoo devs |
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> (i.e. only people with a @gentoo.org email address) would make a lot of |
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> sense. |
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Not really. It's there for general discussion of development matters, |
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not developer matters. Some of the most interesting posts are from |
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non-developers. gentoo-core is restricted. |
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> Rob. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |
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