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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:11:11 +0100 |
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Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:43:12 Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > Nope. What I see as a problem is that the primary author and |
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> > current de facto maintainer is so much of an asshole that he was |
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> > forcibly removed from the Gentoo project, which PMS is supposed to |
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> > be written for, and has ostracized (at least) one of the package |
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> > manager's development team with his constant not-so-subtle |
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> > attacks. Quite frankly, I'd prefer see Gentoo take control over |
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> > the specification that defines the most important single feature of |
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> > Gentoo and remove the non-Gentoo developers from its development. |
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> > No offense, but you're not a Gentoo developer any longer and you |
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> > shouldn't have a say in how *we* manage ourselves. You're more |
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> > than welcome to contribute code, fork, or whatever the hell you |
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> > want. This is open source, after all, but that doesn't mean you |
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> > should be allowed to hold the position of power over Gentoo that |
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> > you've been granted. |
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> I would like to see Gentoo grow some balls and start banning people |
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> from -dev and other media used. I don't mean temporary bans, I mean |
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> for life. |
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> Yes, it's not nice. Yes, Gentoo should be open for all and encourage |
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> participation from all. However, some people have demonstrated time |
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> and time again over quite a number of years that they wont change no |
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> matter what. These people are posionous [1]. |
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Slightly ironic for me to suggest this, but... |
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It is the gentoo-dev mailing list, restrict posting to gentoo devs |
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(i.e. only people with a @gentoo.org email address) would make a lot of |
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sense. |
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Rob. |
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