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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:12:48 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" |
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<drobbins.daniel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It's one thing to make a contribution or submit a patch - it's quite |
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> another to be actively and very significantly involved in a key |
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> technical project that is supposedly defining an interoperability spec |
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> for the key distinguishing feature of Gentoo, namely Portage. |
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I'd argue that the ebuilds, and not Portage, are the key distinguishing |
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feature of Gentoo. Portage is just a way of using the ebuilds... |
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> Right now, you're effectively doing an end-run around the entire |
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> Gentoo management structure. Fortunately for you, it doesn't look like |
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> anyone cares. |
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Not really. We're working on a document, as requested by the Gentoo |
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management structure, and when it's at a good enough state that we're |
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ready to have it discussed, it will be opened up for comments by Gentoo |
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developers, and once they're satisfied it will be submitted to the |
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Gentoo management structure for approval or otherwise. |
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This is fairly standard practice... |
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What is not standard is all the 'input' from third parties who don't |
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know what PMS is, who is working on it, what its goals are or what it |
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says. I get the impression that a lot of this comes about merely |
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because a few people who don't have anything better to do see certain |
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names associated with it and decide to go on the attack -- knowledge of |
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the topic at hand is considered largely irrelevant... |
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> Really, I find this weird and ambiguous and you should probably be |
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> reinstated as a dev or be bumped off of PMS, which should be managed |
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> by Gentoo developers only. |
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Why does it matter whether it's written by Gentoo developers? What |
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matters is that it's written by people who know what they're talking |
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about and who can write reasonably decent technical material, and as the |
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primary author of the devmanual, a whole load of ebuilds, several |
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eclasses and of the only fully independent reimplementation of ebuild |
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(Pkgcore is in parts based upon Portage code -- whether or not this is |
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a good thing is irrelevant to this discussion), I'd say I qualify in |
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that area... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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