Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins
<rafaelmartins@g.o> wrote:
> If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some
> disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't sponsored by
> Gentoo, but this udev-ng/eudev/whatever thing does the opposite and
> actually advertise the Gentoo sponsorship with the sentence "This is a
> Gentoo sponsored project and testing is currently being done with
> openrc." in their README
>
> I don't think that someone can claim this sponsorship without a council vote.
>

Read GLEP 39.  Any dev can create a project.  Granted, most Gentoo
projects don't follow the GLEP to the letter, and as long as nothing
goes wrong it isn't a big problem. The council can step in if
necessary, but having some source out on github won't kill anybody.

Keep in mind though that using github exclusively isn't exactly
aligned with the social contract - I would encourage having the
sources on Gentoo servers.  That said, I don't think it matters where
people do the work vs what is the mirror - just nobody should be
forced to use github (proprietary) to contribute.

As long as everybody behaves Gentoo devs can work on whatever they
want to.  None of us are paid to do this.

If a bunch of strangers made the same claim I'd be more concerned.

If anybody feels a Gentoo project is out of line feel free to submit a
bug to the Council or Trustees as appropriate.  However, please save
that for things like "they're breaking the law" or "they refuse to
have elections for a lead" or whatever, and not "I don't like what
they're working on."  The recourse for the latter is to adjust your
profile/USE-flags/killfile as appropriate.

Rich