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On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:20 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Which was one of the last articles Gentoo mentioned in on Distro watch, till I |
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> believe the OnHub router. Based around that topic, quoting Ciaran. |
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> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070312#future |
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> Most interesting about that article. If you read the last two paragraphs. I |
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> think some of that could be said about the state of things still. |
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Sure, and it probably will be the state of things 20 years from now, |
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with Gentoo still having "little chance that even the minimum of |
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release and bug-fixing goals will be met" and suffering a "rapid |
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downfall of the distribution" :) |
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The predictions of those paragraphs have not in fact come to pass. |
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Would you agree that "if a person who repeatedly engages in personal |
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attacks against other developers is permitted to remain with the |
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project, then there is something wrong with the way the distribution |
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is managed?" |
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I find it a bit interesting that half of this article is about a |
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failure to enforce a Code of Conduct that you don't actually think we |
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ought to have, and that drobbins left in part because it wasn't being |
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enforced. |
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Sometimes forks exist because individuals don't get along or have |
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strong ideas for how things should work to the exclusion of other |
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ideas of how things should work. That's fine, there is nothing wrong |
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with forks. |
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The current meta-structure of Gentoo is structured around the vision |
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that Gentoo is a place where people can make what they want of it, and |
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the governance bodies of Gentoo are mostly about dealing with |
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conflicting goals, not picking winners. Sure, the Council could take |
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a much more pro-active stance and say "Gentoo needs to be the best |
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distro for xyz so we should get rid of all this Java crap" but that |
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would be silly because the two aren't mutually exclusive and telling |
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people to not work on Java isn't going to magically inspire them to |
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work on something else instead. |
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