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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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<chithanh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman schrieb: |
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>> As far as I'm concerned, kids who can't get along can go play |
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>> someplace else. If you want your own apache ebuild that can't be |
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>> touched by anybody but you, that's what overlays are for. |
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> And then the Gentoo portage ebuild loses its maintainer? How is that supposed |
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> to make anything better? |
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First, most people aren't going to quit over this. The maintainer |
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doesn't have to do anything but not actively revert changes made by |
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the project teams. |
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If they do quit, somebody else will have to step up and maintain it, |
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or it gets treecleaned (eventually). Short-term it might be a loss. |
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Long-term I think it is the only way we can thrive. |
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You can't make everybody happy. If we make Gentoo the best place for |
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FOSS contributors to be if they don't want to have to cooperate with |
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anybody else, then those are exactly the sorts of applicants we will |
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get. If we make Gentoo a place where it is easy to make big (optional |
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to users and devs alike) changes and initiatives, then people |
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interested in these will come join us. Somebody made an excellent |
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point about making sure that candidate developers were a good cultural |
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fit, but just what kind of culture do we want them to fit into? Not |
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everybody is going to agree on what kind of culture we should have, |
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but not making any choice at all is resulting in WW3 in the trenches |
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and nobody seems to be happy as a result. Sometimes you just have to |
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make a choice. |
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Frankly I've never been one to cater to "do it my way or I'll quit." |
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If doing it their way makes sense that's fine, but if it isn't a |
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win/win then sometimes no deal is the lesser evil. |
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Rich |
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