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On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 16:49, Alec Berryman wrote: |
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> Currently, -dev isn't a developer list; most of the e-mail is users' |
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> suggestions discussed by other users and the occasional dev, as well as |
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> the occasional mis-post targeted for -user. Perhaps in the future, if |
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> -core would be accessible to the community that drive it, -dev could be |
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> the buffer zone between the final work of the developers and the user |
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> community. Right now, there's a feeling that the developers are |
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> shutting themselves in an ivory tower. That's not good for community. |
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> Gentoo's social contract has always said it will not "hide its |
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> problems", but has continued to keep its core development decisions |
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> closed. |
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Just as a quick point of reference, I have been a gentoo developer for |
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~3 months or so, maybe a bit less. You want to know how I became a |
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gentoo developer? |
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It had nothing to do with finding the keys to the fabled tower, or |
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making the right friends, and had everything to do with being willing to |
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give a bit of my time and energy to serve something that is needed in |
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gentoo. All I did was make a couple small proposals here about some |
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general stuff, and then offer to maintain the sendmail ebuild. Thats it, |
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no hocus-pocus, no magic words, no secret rites, not even a special |
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handshake. (Man, did I feel gypped!) |
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My point is just this, you want access to -core, become a developer, its |
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part of the territory. |
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And I might be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that many |
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other non-profit Linux distributions have non-open lists. In fact, I |
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would be very surprised if any Linux distributions don't. |
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--Todd |
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