Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 21:18, Josh Saddler wrote:
> However, for the purposes of an actual project, I believe it's
> considered essential that we own the infrastructure that project is hosted
> on. All of our other projects (to my knowledge) are hosted on our own
> infrastructure.
>
> If we cannot properly administer a Gentoo resource, i.e. if we have to
> go through unaffiliated intermediaries, then it should not be an official
> Gentoo project. I don't believe having a spot in /proj/
> designates a project as "official"; I think the actual working area needs
> to be Gentoo-owned.
>
> That being said, you and others are free to do the whole LQ and other
> forums help; more power to you. But as I said, I don't think it should be
> an official TLP (or subproject) as we do not have proper supervision of
> external resources.

Good point. However it all depends on the lenses you look
it through.

gse is meant to be more like devrel or userrel. We are not going
to be moderating those forums, and we don't have any authority
there at all. This foundation is needed as a way to link the
Gentoo community with another support communities where people
will eventually seek support about Gentoo.

How else could we establish an official relationship with other
external projects? Of course the thing has to get external at
some point. The other option is to encapsulate and live isolated
from the rest of the reality.

What we offer is that and support, and the only infrastructure
is the project itself and their members. It's very abstract, I
know, but such is the nature of the project.

You don't have to go thru intermediaries either. The project is
me and the rest of volunteers, and it exists independently of
LQ or any other concrete place. LQ is just a particular case
where we can be useful.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero