Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Items for Council Agenda, May 14
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 09:36:50
Message-Id: 6911c21d-9c0b-5abe-46ea-803ab668110f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Items for Council Agenda, May 14 by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 05/12/2017 03:41 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2017, 10:52:01 CEST schrieb Roy Bamford:
3 >> On 2017.05.12 00:07, Daniel Campbell wrote:
4 >> [snip]
5 >>
6 >>> I'd be open to a trial -- try it out for a few months and see what
7 >>> happens. I have a feeling I'll be right and activity will plummet, but
8 >>> the only way to know for sure is to try it. Then nobody can argue over
9 >>> it because we'll have facts to work with.
10 >>>
11 >>> Just my 2ยข.
12 >>
13 >> Its been tried and and was judged a failure by a past council.
14 >>
15 >
16 > And the number of people who are still around from back then is not that big
17 > anymore.
18 > In addition, if you are going to cite prehistory (roughly 9 years ago) here,
19 > let me correct you... (1)
20 >
21 > * The proctors team was indeed considered a failure and disbanded back then;
22 > in my opinion that went rather idiotically, with lots of egos clashing.
23 >
24 > * The council back then agreed that
25 > -> gentoo-dev should be moderated for non-@gentoo adresses
26 > -> gentoo-project should be created to attract all the bikeshedding
27 > interpersonal flamebaits ...
28 > Thus gentoo-project came into being. And suddenly it was so quiet on gentoo-
29 > dev that the moderation proposal seemed unnecessary...
30 >
31 >
32 > (1) As you know I've been reading the logs and at least part of the archived
33 > mail.
34 >
35
36 Thank you both for the bit of insight. If we've already tried this and
37 it didn't work, history suggests it will be ineffective at best.
38 --
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