[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Distrowatch

[Steve Long]

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote:
>> There is a plethora of potential Gentoo developers out there and this
>> sort of press does nothing for getting them any closer to joining the
>> effort.
Agreed by me at least.

> In any event, the Distrowatch article did not change either my perception
> of the quality of Gentoo or rule out me volunteering as a developer. What
> it did do is prompt me to reply to the DistroWatch message board, as I
> often do. And I said essentially what I've said here -- I am still a
> Gentoo loyalist and I haven't seen a decrease in the day-to-day quality of
> Gentoo for *any* reason.
Yeah I responded to in the end. It might not put you off since, as you say,
you have been with gentoo for ages, and are an arch-tester, know the people
and so on. It could well put off someone else tho. We haven't seen a
decrease in quality either. If anything gentoo is a lot slicker than it
used to be (according to my coding guy anyway, and i trust his judgement.)

<snip> So -- Gentoo's home page -- the
> marketing face of the distro to the world -- invites one and all to join
> a discussion on a code of conduct, and most of us, even "advanced"
> users, have no idea of the context. That's both good and bad. It's good
> -- very good, IMHO -- because it shows that the community is open to
> feedback and is willing to announce that. And it's bad because you don't
> in general want negativity on your front page.
>
I think the only bad is that the context isn't clear, which I don't
understand at all. After all, it's all over the forums, and any outsiders
are probably aware of the mess if they have any interest in gentoo.

>> Thus, with all respect due to current and past developers, could I
>> suggest that regardless of whether or not the DW article is worth
>> consideration, the process of adopting the Communication CoC and the
>> structures required to implement it be followed through in the best
>> interests of all developers and users of the Gentoo project.
> +1, as they say on other lists, with the proviso that the discussion
> continue until all have been heard. Processes like this take as long as
> they take.
>
++ except I don't think ``it'll be ready when it's ready'' will cut it.
Certainly 3 days is way too little for such a major change. One month seems
long enough to this noob to get enough discussion amongst usrs and devs for
a draft which could then be put to a dev vote.


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