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From: George Prowse <george.prowse@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:09:36
Message-Id: 4859CDE6.1000901@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] by Mauricio Lima Pilla
1 ++
2
3 It's about time someone said this and I honestly think that lots of
4 developers will be thinking the same.
5
6 In the end, PMS is just a way for them to spread their own agenda and
7 force it on both the developers and the users so maybe it would be best
8 for all if paludis and it's developers were to concentrate on making
9 paludis for a different distro. Trollix may be a good place to start...
10
11 Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
12 > Chris++
13 >
14 > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o
15 > <mailto:wolf31o2@g.o>> wrote:
16 >
17 > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
18 > > Do you think that the differences between the proportion of patches
19 > > from 'Paludis people' that are accepted or rejected and the
20 > proportion
21 > > of patches from 'Portage people' or 'Pkgcore people' indicates a
22 > > problem?
23 >
24 > Nope. What I see as a problem is that the primary author and current
25 > de facto maintainer is so much of an asshole that he was forcibly
26 > removed from the Gentoo project, which PMS is supposed to be written
27 > for, and has ostracized (at least) one of the package manager's
28 > development team with his constant not-so-subtle attacks. Quite
29 > frankly, I'd prefer see Gentoo take control over the specification that
30 > defines the most important single feature of Gentoo and remove the
31 > non-Gentoo developers from its development. No offense, but you're not
32 > a Gentoo developer any longer and you shouldn't have a say in how *we*
33 > manage ourselves. You're more than welcome to contribute code, fork, or
34 > whatever the hell you want. This is open source, after all, but that
35 > doesn't mean you should be allowed to hold the position of power over
36 > Gentoo that you've been granted.
37 >
38 > --
39 > Chris Gianelloni
40 > Release Engineering Strategic Lead
41 > Games Developer
42 >
43 >
44 >
45 >
46 > --
47 > Mauricio Lima Pilla
48 > Polytechnic Center - UCPEL
49 >
50 > pilla@××××××××××.br <mailto:pilla@××××××××××.br>,
51 > mauricio.pilla@×××××.com <mailto:mauricio.pilla@×××××.com>
52 > http://g3pd.ucpel.tche.br/~pilla
53 > key 0x37705BE0
54 >
55 > "I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept."
56 > -- Calvin
57
58 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
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