Re: [gentoo-project] Evidence of idella4's damage to Gentoo, please

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:09:09 -0500
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:29:13 PM EST Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > Considering the nature of comrel operation, I don't think a public
> > mailing list is an appropriate medium for this conversation. In fact,
> > I'm not even sure if you already haven't disclosed confidential
> > information.
>
>  I have always been a fan of operating in public. I question things that must
> be kept confidential. This is about open source software after all. Not to
> mention an open source project, and non profit foundation. This was how I felt
> when I was a Trustee, and did not like discussing anything related to Gentoo
> or the Foundation in private then.

There is a difference between operating in public from day one,
and asking someone to expose possibly-confidential facts.
For the latter, you need agreement of all interested parties.

> > However, in order to hopefully satisfy your curiosity, I'm going to
> > tell you something general: there are people who can do a lot of harm
> > to Gentoo without breaking any obvious rules.
>
> IMHO there are more people harming Gentoo that are part of Gentoo than anyone
> that has been cast outside of Gentoo for any reason, motivated or forced.
>
> The general attitude expressed in this reply is exactly that. It is not
> inviting for others and IMHO shows how those that are part of Gentoo are
> harming it much more than anyone driven away.

Did you ever estimate how much harm to actual Gentoo development do
never-ending mailing list threads that bring no point whatsoever except
for provoking a lot of developers to reply, who would otherwise be
doing technical work on Gentoo?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>