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For whatever it's worth, I rather like the Gentoo Seeds project, |
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although I'm more interested in nice tools to make the seeds, than |
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in having pre-existing seeds. |
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Ciaranm has argued that the project really should have been GLEPped. |
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Although I wouldn't have opposed such a GLEP, it's not clear to me that |
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a GLEP is the right format here. Underlying a GLEP is the notion that |
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somebody is going to have to approve it. By our current policies, |
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anybody is welcome to start a new project (we welcome innovation, after |
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all), and if the effort underway doesn't involve other projects then the |
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only approval needed would be the project leader, which would be the |
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person who created the project, which would seem a bit silly. |
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Of course, nothing would stop somebody from posting an RFC to -dev |
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essentially in the same format as a GLEP, however. |
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Of course, what ciaranm and others are really suggesting is that before |
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there's an announcement that Gentoo has an official project to do blah, |
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it might be nice to get some feedback from the community first. If we |
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(being Gentoo) say that we're going to do something, and then things |
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fall through, it might make us look bad, after all. In this case, |
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though, it's not clear to me what stuart should have done differently. |
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He didn't issue a press release (unless I'm missing something), he sent |
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an e-mail to -dev announcing that he had created a new project and |
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described the purpose of that project. If it had been me, I probably |
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would have sent an e-mail letting people know that I was seriously |
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thinking about creating such a project, pointed out that it was |
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experimental, and given people a (brief!) period of time to complain |
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before went ahead and pushed the button, but it's not clear to me that |
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any of that was actually required. (I would like to suggest that it is |
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more courteous, though, not to surprise our devs w/ something new if a |
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more gentle introduction can be managed.) |
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To some extent, we're back to determining what the word "official" means |
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in these cases. My goal in making projects easy to create was to |
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support innovative ideas. Most innovative ideas don't pan out, however, |
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so a corollary has to be that just because a project exists (and thus is |
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somehow "official") doesn't mean that anything useful will come out of |
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it, nor that what does come out of it will be supported by the community |
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as a whole. If we need to change things to make that reality more clear, I'm |
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certainly willing to listen to suggestions. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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