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> On Aug 5, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:12 PM Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Prestige is good. We have prestige from our (myself and a few others) work in upstream ZFS and Gentoo is well respected there. |
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> Sure, but ZFS on Linux isn't a Gentoo project. |
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> I'm not saying people who are Gentoo devs can't also do other things. |
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> Lots of Gentoo devs are involved in lots of stuff that gets a fair bit |
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> of respect. OpenRC is a big example of this. From time to time I bump |
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> into signs of Gentoo on upstream projects (just today that included |
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> SoapySDRPlay). |
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> Also, this gives us an opportunity to set an example, in helping to |
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> ensure the upstream project is maintained in a distro-friendly manner |
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> where Gentoo is a first class citizen. |
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> I'm not saying that stuff like this should be banned from infra. It |
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> just seems like an unnecessary constraint all-around. It means that |
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> the project has to generally follow Gentoo policies/etc, and is |
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> limited to the tools we provide. Just something to think about... |
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Which policies would those be? The upstream projects that we do have as Gentoo sub-projects seem to have plenty of freedom. |
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> Rich |
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