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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:01:02 -0400, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> Maybe a recruiting drive to help with the maintenance. A typical |
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> business brings on new blood and assigns them just that role to free up |
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> more senior developers for more complicated projects. |
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> New developers should definitely meet a standard, but the possibility of |
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> bringing developers with energy and potential to assist in maintenance |
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> might be worth a consideration. |
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That's a laugh! Problem is that no devs seem to get approved in a timely |
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fashion. And, any potential devs would be rather turned off by the goings |
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on here. You guys seem to try and stifle innovation at every turn -- |
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trying to turn Gentoo into GLEPtoo. Instead of progress, you have |
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arguments. Instead of innovation, you have arguments. Instead of new |
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blood, you lose people. |
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You (collectively meaning the critics of new projects) are so worried |
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about the perception of Gentoo that you can't see the forest for the |
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trees. The fact that every new proposal gets a 100 message thread as a |
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response looks really silly. Having developers submit ebuild quizzes and |
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then not hear for 6 weeks is silly. |
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Here's my take on what wrong with leadership and the process in |
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Gentoo-land . Many people have ideas, and some make attempts to implement |
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them. That's great. However, some then think it's not right or not proper |
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or not proposed the right way. Some of the critics may be right, but who's |
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the arbiter? Who's to say, "STFU, this project is going ahead" or "You've |
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got a point, let's discuss it." No one. There's no one person or group who |
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seems to have the authority to step up and take control of a situation. No |
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one who can say to bashers, "You're out of line." Oh I know, there's the |
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council, but really, I've yet to see them exert any authority. Look at the |
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calamity that surrounded Paludis or Sunrise. |
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Instead, you have a dozen people jerking around over the propriety of the |
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manner in which a project was proposed! All trying, with good intent, |
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to influence the future direction of Gentoo. Good god. It's like third |
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grade. |
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So, my unofficial 2 cents are: Encourage development at every turn. |
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Accelerate approval of developers (hint, kloeri, christel?), and, instead |
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of flaming and arguing all the time, maybe offer assistance! And lastly, |
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for goodness sakes, someone take control. You really need an authority |
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figure here who is respected and whose word is final. Otherwise, every |
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tom, dick, and harry with an opinion is going to chime in and say "Oh no, |
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you can't do that." |
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Peter |
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