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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:03:53
Message-Id: 20060105035706.GA23895@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Kurt Lieber
1 On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:58:57AM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni
3 > wrote:
4 > > Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo is not anything more than
5 > > a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a
6 > > collaborative and collective manner. You cannot use corporate thinking
7 > > to manage such a beast. We don't have mission statements. We don't have
8 > > road maps. We don't have quarterly earnings and market projections. We
9 > > simply exist.
10 >
11 > Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow
12 > decline.
13
14 Ok, then what should Gentoo do to fix this percieved decline?
15
16 > > Do you want to be a part of a project that doesn't allow you to
17 > > implement some cool new feature because it might make Gentoo slightly
18 > > harder to use for some people and that's against the mission statement
19 > > so not allowed?
20 >
21 > Yes, absolutely.
22
23 We need a mission statement first :)
24
25 thanks,
26
27 greg k-h
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