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Hi, |
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Lares Moreau wrote: |
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> need to have some form of Governance board. A board that doesn't worry |
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> about implementation details; a board that gives a long term vision to |
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> our project. |
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This sounds very scary to me. Perhaps that's because I'm not sure how |
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detailed such a plan would be. If our goal is... |
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* "Make Gentoo the best distro 0n 73h p14n37" |
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I can only say "what a lame marketing." |
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* "Make Gentoo the most customizable distro" |
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I'm pretty sure some users with silly ideas will ask us to implement |
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the feature/whatever. If we reject their idea, they come up with |
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something like "But Gentoo is all about customisation!!!111". |
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(Actually, I was already confronted with such a situation in a |
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real-world meeting, it was pretty annoying.) |
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Also, this might not be where everybody wants to go. |
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* "Let's implement $foo with $bar." |
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Oh well, then we already have implementational details, which don't |
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belong into a 'general goal'. |
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> I am a big believer is having a common goal to unite all people who work |
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> with an organization. I'm sorry If I am repeating myself, but I feel |
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> this is an issue that is vital to the continued success of Gentoo. |
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If you replace 'organization' with 'project', I agree. There should be |
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something like a common goal. However, I don't think Gentoo has to have |
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one single goal. I'm pretty sure everybody of us has his own ideas where |
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Gentoo should go and his own motivations which make him contribute. So |
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why make generalisations? Just as an example: |
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Taken from the project listing page: |
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The developer relations Project is an effort to recruit, train, and |
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manage developers for Gentoo's development structure. |
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Now let's have a look at the three possible goals I stated above. |
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* "Make the best distro 0n 73h p14n37" |
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Obviously devrel's goal somehow supports this, as you can assume that |
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people spend more time on Gentoo-related work if there is a good |
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climate, but do you really need a global goal for such a trivial |
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thing? I don't think so. |
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* "Make Gentoo the most customizable distro" |
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I can't see how devrel contributes anything to this goal. Oh, wait a |
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sec, it doesn't contribute anything to Gentoo's goal? Let's drop it! |
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</sarcasm> |
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* "Let's implement $foo with $bar." |
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See above. |
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My point is, either you have to generalize each project's goal to a real |
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triviality or you have to define a goal which doesn't match some |
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project's goals. Conclusion: Let it be. |
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Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead |
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blubb@g.o |
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