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On 10 April 2010 21:27, Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ben, |
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> Petteri was proposing an idea. He is being creative |
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You call that creative? It seems you don't know what the word means. |
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> You, on the other hand, have lately been increasingly critical (which |
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> is good) but not constructively. You obviously have a lot of energy |
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> but at no point have you offered your contribution. You haven't |
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> offered to help the teams you've been criticizing and you haven't |
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> proposed any real idea (website redesign, recruiters). |
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I guess I was hallucinating that I started the wiki project, which has |
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been a popular request for as long as I can remember. I guess I |
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imagined I worked together with Markos to start the proxy-maintainer |
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project to improve visibility of that option to contribute. And I must |
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have been dreaming that I sent a mail about forming a team to review |
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and renew the recruitment process and curriculum. I must be mistaken |
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in thinking I have proposed to centralize all developer documentation |
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into one place. Oh, and forgive me for not publicly announcing that I |
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sent a mail to the dormant webteam about joining and offering my help. |
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And asking for leadership on issues that affect Gentoo on a wider |
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scale is not constructive? |
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Or maybe you are wrong about those things. Maybe you are not noticing |
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my contributions? |
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> Also you're |
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> criticizing without knowing what is happening when the information is |
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> publicly available (you're asking for a discussion on the metadata |
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> idea and it was a topic last month, |
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It is exactly because I know what council decided about the metadata |
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idea that I spoke up and asked for a reconsideration, giving some (in |
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my eyes) good arguments as to why you should. But I guess your reading |
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comprehension isn't that stellar either. |
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> the devrel issue is being tackled and it started before your rant). |
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To my knowledge there was no public announcement about that, other |
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than that we have another lead now. |
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> Credibility is among these things which take a long and hard work to |
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> build up and can completely blow up at any time. |
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Indeed. And you have now completely blown yours. |
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I am still hoping for a better Gentoo and volunteering to make that |
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happen. I hope you do too. So step up to the task and be a real |
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leader, which is what you were elected to do. Or, if you are unable or |
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unwilling to do so, step down and make room for somebody else who is |
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more qualified for the job. |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Qt project lead developer |
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Gentoo Wiki project lead |