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Brandon Low wrote: |
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> if we go any further toward managing |
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> things, we're going to lose a lot of what many of us consider what is |
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> GOOD about Gentoo, the FUN, the excitement, the 'cool' factor of being |
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> able to SEE changes help users in almost real time without having to |
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> wade through bullshit to do it. |
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This is a unique quality, one Gentoo has created by means of its |
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friendly developer community and its fast paced movement. I don't |
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believe any other distribution can do what Gentoo does. |
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> These are users who (I would guess) |
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> close to half run ~x86 bleeding edge sometimes broken apps because it is |
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> FUN. These people have NO interest in politics or in the runnings of an |
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> OSS project, they just want to see their favorite apps, and the latest |
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> greatest toys on their desktops NOW, and they will not only help, but |
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> ENJOY helping to fix issues which come up. |
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Exactly. |
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> See above, we're not a democracy, managers in an OSS project are there |
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> because they earned the respect of their peers sufficiently to get that |
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> place. I DARE ** DARE ** someone to try to convince Linus or any of his |
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> core people to have 'terms of office' in their roles, and see just how |
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> fast whomever suggests it bites the dust. |
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> No offence, Zhen, I like you, and I like your work, but I almost |
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> completely disagree about the best direction for this project to take in |
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> order to remain the great and fun project it is and to be able to |
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> continue to grow and innovate in the great ways it has been for recent |
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> years. |
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Not to incite an argument, but I think we can all see the areas where |
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Debian fails to be a shining example of Linux development. I see a great |
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number of suggestions being made that call for Gentoo to move more in |
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line with Debian's development structure, and it smacks of not being |
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able to learn from the mistakes of the past. |
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As I said above, Gentoo is unique, it is not Debian. I think a |
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management structure and a methodology for shaping Gentoo's future must |
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be very different from that of Debian if Gentoo is to maintain that |
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uniqueness. |
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Democracy in a development environment will create chaos. A constitution |
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is going to create a distant core team environment which, as we've seen, |
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has not been of benefit lately to XFree86 or the FreeBSD project, let |
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alone Debian itself - there will be constant bickering over legalities |
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and entitlements. Restricting the length of time in which a manager can |
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remain a manager doesn't make any sense. Isn't someone only going to get |
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better at their job, the longer they do it (rhetorical)? |
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Cheers, |
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Brad |
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