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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> I just posted this to my blog [1], but I know you don't all read it so I |
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> wanted to post it here as well. Do read all the way through. I very |
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> rarely write anything this long, and when I do, it's something I feel |
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> very strongly about. |
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<snip a bunch of good stuff> |
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> If I could go back in time a couple of years and prevent this democracy |
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> from ever happening, I would. If I could fix these problems myself, I |
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> would. But it requires buy-in from the entire Gentoo community if we're |
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> to do anything about it. |
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Amen brother. |
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I mentioned something similar about needing a single voice to help push |
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development in the right direction back in January. And sadly, I'm |
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seeing the same responses on your thread as I did on mine back then. Its |
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just to the point where there is a line dividing many developers on what |
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they think is the right way to run Gentoo. Looking at the folks we have |
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now, I seriously doubt we'll be able to fix it. The same problems we've |
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faced in the last year or so will just get worse, and eventually enough |
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good developers will leave that critical mass will be in effect. |
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Maybe its a cultural thing between some of us, or maybe its the |
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'pre-daniel' versus 'post-daniel' devs. I'm curious the demographics of |
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our active developers that were on prior to daniel's leaving compared to |
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those who joined after. To most of the recent active folks, they never |
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knew what it was like before. Hell, I just got on towards the tail end |
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of the daniel-era, so I don't have much validity in that realm myself! |
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But I do remember how it used to be and how well we did things and how |
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we usually respected each other in some fashion or another. |
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I'm afraid those days are in the past unless some kind of fork happens |
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where the folks who think we need a leader go their way and the folks |
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who prefer the leader-by-committee approach go their way. We all hate |
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forks, none of us have time for forks, but looking at the dividing line, |
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I don't see how we'll be able to compromise with out adding more |
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policies and BS. |
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Anyways, Donnie++ |
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