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On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:30 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> I just wonder why several people feel attacked by this decission while |
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> the affected parties have no problem with it. |
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There is a growing anti-authority sentiment within the Gentoo developer |
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community. People want to complain about any decision made, even if it |
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doesn't affect them. This is the "power" of a free and open community. |
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It allows people, even those that have no vested interest in the |
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decision, to voice their opinions and have them heard. |
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The problem here is that people think that their opinion or personal |
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beliefs trump Council decisions, when they do not. As simplistic as it |
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sounds, when the Council makes a decision you have only a very few |
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choices: |
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- Agree, accept it and move on |
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- Disagree, accept it and move on |
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- Disagree and appeal the decision at the next meeting |
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- Disagree and vote out the current Council next election |
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Yes, there are some more variations on the above, but I leave those as |
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an exercise to the reader. The point here is that these constant |
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"discussions" on how the Council is killing Gentoo simply because they |
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might have made a decision that you personally might not make or they |
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made it in a manner that you personally might not have used are doing |
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nothing more than undermining the authority given to the Council by the |
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developer community at large when they approved GLEP 39. If you |
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disagree with a Council decision, there are procedures in place for you |
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to be heard and for the decision to be appealed. Use those procedures. |
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Trying to make every decision out to be some sort of abuse of power is |
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getting quite old and tired and is going to lend people to not pay |
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attention anymore, which would be sad if there ever *was* a case of the |
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Council abusing its power. |
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Welcome to the story of the developers that cried "abuse"... |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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