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On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 16:11 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> So, either people don't care about policies for Council (which does not |
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> seem to be the case) |
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Not sure about that. There are currently how many Gentoo Developers? |
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What percentage is commenting here? |
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I never read the GLEP till this came up. I suspect most others are in |
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the same boat. It's not like part of our recruitment process requires |
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people to read all GLEPs. So it should not be assumed people read or |
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care about them :) |
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> or no one has ever seen any problems in the policy |
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> requiring changes. This makes it a bit puzzling why it's a big deal |
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> when something comes up which activates a clause in the policy (when |
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> the requirement affects Council itself. After all, this entire policy |
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> tells us the rules for how Council works. That's what it's about.) |
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That's the nature of open source. No one cares till you do. Things are |
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ignored till one cares about it. Then everyone else has opinions. Thus |
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this never came up before, so no one cared. Now that it has, a very |
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small fraction cares. A vast majority is.... |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |