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From: "Bryan Østergaard" <kloeri@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:05:27
Message-Id: 20070107235847.GY21525@woodpecker.gentoo.org
1 On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Ivan Sakhalin wrote:
2 > Dear friends and fellow Gentooists,
3 >
4 <snip lots of text>
5 >
6 > While the politics around these cases make rational discussion quite
7 > difficult
8 > it is obvious even to outsiders that this is not in the spirit of the
9 > original Gentoo Metadistribution - it even violates many of those so-called
10 > rules that were created to help the interaction between people from wildly
11 > divergent backgrounds.
12 > Devrel, as it stands, has always been controversial as everyone saw a
13 > different use for the rather unneeded concentration of power in the hands of
14 > a few people. But when people are denied an appeal and devrel unilaterally
15 > decides, ignoring policies and common sense, what is one supposed to think?
16 >
17 Developer Relations haven't denied any appeals at all. You'll have to
18 back this statement up with facts if you want to change any developers
19 mind about this I'm afraid.
20
21 Regards,
22 Bryan Østergaard
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