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Daniel Armyr wrote: |
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>Yeah, and if I want to know how my government makes descisions on how |
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>my life is un I can allways become a high-ranking politician. At this |
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>point in time, Gentoo simply does not have an open culture, but a closed |
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>one. I am fore an read-only core, but when reading this thread I have a |
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>nagging suspicion that this is pointless. The Gentoo devs want to have an |
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>ivory tower, and ivory towers can not be scaled. The only way to change |
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>is for the inhabitants to come out freely. |
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I think you're making way more out of this than neccesary. There is no |
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ivory tower here, there is no elitism amongst Gentoo developers. BTW - |
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your analogy is flawed. Speaking as someone who just completed the |
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process no more than 72 hours ago; becomming a Gentoo developer is |
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nothing like becomming a politician letalone a "high-ranking politician". |
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The fact of the matter is - developers need a place to hash out ideas |
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without every user, developer-in-training, or casual on-looker jumping |
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all over them and micromanaging. |
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Don't take this the wrong way, I'm pretty well on the fence about the |
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issue myself. On one hand, I enjoy the notion that the developers have |
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nothing to hide and go out of their way to show it. On the other hand, I |
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believe the developers need a forum where they can discuss ideas that |
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might never see the light of day. discuss asinine details, etc. |
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You also have to remember that if the developers really want to have |
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private discussions, they will. If they feel they can't talk openly on |
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-core they'll form a new list. |
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>>And I might be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that many |
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>>other non-profit Linux distributions have non-open lists. In fact, I |
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>>would be very surprised if any Linux distributions don't. |
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> And since then was that an excuse? I thought Gentoo wanted to be better than |
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> other distros. |
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That's pretty subjective. Is it really that much "better" to discuss |
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everything out in the open? Is there such a thing as too much openness? |
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Stewart Honsberger |
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