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Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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>> To co-lead a Gentoo project? You need to be a dev to do that. I |
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>> couldn't join any projects even as a member until I became a dev, and |
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>> I created the distro. You are effectively co-leading (likely leading) |
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>> PMS as a non-dev - worse than that, as someone who has been explicitly |
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>> removed from a dev role. |
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> He's not leading it. He's writing parts of it under my lead, despite |
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> the fact that he's probably better qualified technically than I am to |
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> lead it. |
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Yes so in a /technical/ sense he's the lead. You defer to his greater |
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knowledge. Or are you more political than technical? |
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>> Again, you're not just submitting a patch but architecting the |
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>> strategic direction for package manager interoperability which has |
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>> strategic implications for Gentoo, and is more than just a |
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>> user-submitted "contribution." |
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> Nope. He's documenting the existing situation for package manager |
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> interoperability. Wherever PMS goes against existing practise it's been |
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> discussed either on -dev or with the portage developers past and |
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> present. Again, he's not influencing future direction this way. |
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Oh no of course not. Paludis is in fact being led in the most appropriate |
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political fashion, rather than the best technical approach for the job. |
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>> is more than just a |
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>> user-submitted "contribution." |
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> Nope. |
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Doh! |
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