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Brian Harring posted <20060105064956.GC14338@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:49:56 -0800: |
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> Note I said 'intentional'; seems like people have been pushing for |
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> gentoo as a whole to slow down (note the enterprise |
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> concerns/complaints that hit the ml every 6 months for example). |
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> Dunno. Maybe it's all a ramble, maybe you think I'm a loon, but final |
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> point I'm going to make is that pushing for a global solution (whether |
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> a BDFL or board or committee) totally is missing the actual issue- |
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> that individuals get things done, the larger the # of folks involved |
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> in progressing towards something the slower they're going to move. |
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This man speaks my mind. That's one of the things I'm worried about with |
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the Enterprise Gentoo thing, and why I think it will make a better |
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separate project than part of Gentoo itself. |
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Anyone who thinks Gentoo isn't progressing simply isn't seeing the forest |
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for all the trees, as they say. Another way of putting it is that Gentoo |
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seems to be in that critical period after the honeymoon, it has hit its |
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middle-aged crisis. Reality has set in -- we're not going to magically |
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move mountains, as yes, a mountain /can/ be moved, see the history of the |
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Panama canal for instance, but it takes a *LOT* of work, a LOT of |
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investment, and sometimes even some deaths along the way. During that |
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time, progress may seem painfully slow, yet it never-the-less occurs. |
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What's the alternative, dumping the project and leaving it for dead? Then |
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all that work and investment, and all those deaths, /will/ be in vain. |
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OTOH, after a certain point, which Gentoo seems to have reached, throwing |
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more bureaucracy at a project, as seems to be part of the proposal here, |
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does more harm than good. I'm with Brian, here. If we want progress, we |
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gotta slack off on the regulation a bit and give the folks actually down |
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there getting their hands dirty some room to work, at least if we aren't |
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willing (or able) to get in there with them. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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