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On 12/06/2016 11:35 AM, Craig Inches wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have decided to stop involvement with the Project as a proxied |
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> maintainer, and to stop pursuing becoming a developer. Two main |
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> reasons for this, one the community is at times openly hostile on the |
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> mailing lists and IRC, of which I have asked people on IRC about whom |
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> have responded this is the norm(once in awhile vents is fine it |
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> happens but this has been consistently visible) this is ignoring |
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> cultural differences that may cause misunderstanding; Secondly the |
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> community is very insular and unwelcoming to new comers. |
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Sadly, you are at least partially correct. Thick skin should be listed |
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as a requirement to participate with Gentoo. A while back, we we were |
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promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy folks that did not get on |
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well with IRC. It never materialized, so I too cut my losses with irc |
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as a blocker to becoming a gentoo dev. Also, I've has several folks |
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promise to work with individually to obtain proxy status, but they all |
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just disappear. No doubt, back_channel chatter from some jaded devs |
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greased that relationship. |
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So, I've been planing to just have my own repo, work on ebuilds as |
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I like (actually accumulated close to 50 now) and F those a.holes.... |
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Then along comes Anna:: what a breath of fresh are and wisdom beyond |
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her years (see her recent post on gentoo-dev), if you have not already |
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done so. |
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> In twelve months of working with people only 2 have actively |
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> encouraged involvement (shout out to Idella4 and pacho for this), some |
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> projects didn't respond, or if they did they provided no details or |
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> feedback to those of us who where new and trying to contribute. I |
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> don't want to mention names about the negatives because I don't blame |
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> the individuals; it too me seems to be systemic within the community. |
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> I have a few comments about how I think you could improve things, but |
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> feel free to ignore they are offered in the spirit of constructive |
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> criticism: |
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> Review your CoC, its open to abuse as pointed out on another thread. |
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> Enforcement of rules should be consistent. |
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> Review your recruitment strategies, and framework for contribution. |
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> https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ might be of interest to some |
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> posters! construct a well reason argument - but be prepared to |
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> reconsider! |
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> Finally encourage Active involvement from all Developers in Gentoo |
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> matters not just in their packages, apathy is your worst enemy |
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> I have updated one outstanding ticket for bugzilla from last week that |
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> was assigned to me as maintainer wanted, and will shortly put through |
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> a pull request on github which updates the meta data for bugzilla and |
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> displaycal removing me as a maintainer. |
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> To end on a positive note, I was a user for many years and will |
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> continue for the short term at the very least as I think the concept |
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> of gentoo is great. |
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Anna Wilcox has proposed some new and invigorating ideas so that all of |
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gentoo may prosper from the splintering into the various gentoo derived |
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distributions. In fact I sincerely hope that her ideas are coalesced |
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into a GLEP and that forking gentoo, (which is already a meta_distro) is |
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rigorously supported and encouraged and stream-lined. I just hope those |
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sailing the Gentoo ship, learn some humility and how to assimilate the |
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best of the ideas from the various gentoo-derived distros back into |
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gentoo proper. CoreOS is a very rich source of materials and ideas, ripe |
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for integration back into gentoo-proper, imho;ymmv. |
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My research on Anna yields a deep wisdom and I have found new reasons |
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for joy, related to gentoo, because of her (team) vision. Perhaps you |
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should at least go and view www.adelielinux.org. |
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She is definitely of leadership quality, with impeccable vision and |
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manners. I for one, know I can only dream about such qualities, but I'm |
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old and cantankerous and fit right in here at gentoo, with the strong |
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collective of 'old bastards'..... |
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P.S. Never give up on Gentoo, as that would be unwise, imho. |
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Peace and Best of luck to you, Craig. |
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James |
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> Cheers, |
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> Craig |