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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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<rafaelmartins@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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>> Hmm, pretty cool! Then I can create a stupid project, put it on gentoo |
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>> infra and claim it as being Gentoo sponsored. Good to know, thanks! |
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> Just to make it clear: I'm not saying that any of the people involved |
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> with udev-ng/eudev/whatever, or even the project itself, is stupid. I |
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> was just interpreting rich0's answer. |
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However, your interpretation is perfectly correct - from GLEP 39: |
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Note that this GLEP does not provide for a way for the community at |
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large to block a new project, even if the comments are wholly |
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negative. |
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Arguably if somebody wants to be disruptive they can accomplish a lot |
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more by trolling the lists than by starting projects. Judging by the |
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general traffic on -dev, I'd say that everybody figured that out a |
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long time ago. |
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Oh, while anybody can start a project, the fact is that they all still |
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fall under either the Council or Trustees, and they must abide by the |
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policies set by both. Developers who cause trouble are still subject |
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to Devrel. |
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As somebody pointed out to me in email - the barriers to becoming a |
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dev are high, but once you're in you have fairly free reign. I'd like |
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to think that most of us would use that for the benefit of the |
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community. What I can tell you for sure is that no amount of rules or |
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bureaucracy is going to solve people problems - at best they just |
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stifle them, and everything else. |
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Rich |
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