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John Davis wrote: |
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> Step back for a minute and recognize the ramifications of those numbers. The product that |
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> we baby and work on is used by over a _quarter of a million_ people. |
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Over a _quarter of |
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>a million_ people rely on our QA procedure for stable packages, our |
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security, our openness. |
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> No matter what your political philosophy, this fact should awe you. |
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That's a point I'd have to disagree with you on. A quarter of a million |
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people enjoy our quick turn-around time and ease for users to become |
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involved in the development of the distribution. If they're relying on |
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us for stability or any kind of guarantee of reliability, sorry, but |
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they're in the wrong place. Debian, RedHat are thattaway --> |
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Gentoo is a bleeding-edge hacker's distribution. It's Linux From Scratch |
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with a package manager. It is not a corporate or enterprise platform. |
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It could develop to the point where we maintain our current status quo |
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*AND* we find ourselves with a stable branch upon which businesses can |
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rely, but that is not Gentoo, nor will it be Gentoo if we overlay it |
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with politics and beaurocracy to the point where users are afraid to get |
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involved and we find a wedge between the developers and the user base. |
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If it comes to such a time, I will resign as a developer. I didn't sign |
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up for this to be some sort of elite beaurocrat with voting authority |
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and managerial restrictions. I signed up for it so that I could |
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contribute ebuilds without going through a middle-man. |
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Your proposal was well written, obviously thought out, and quite |
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eloquent. However, I think you'd be better served to submit it to |
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Debian-Private. |
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Stewart Honsberger |
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Gentoo Developer |
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