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Hi, |
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I have decided to stop involvement with the Project as a proxied |
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maintainer, and to stop pursuing becoming a developer. Two main |
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reasons for this, one the community is at times openly hostile on the |
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mailing lists and IRC, of which I have asked people on IRC about whom |
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have responded this is the norm(once in awhile vents is fine it |
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happens but this has been consistently visible) this is ignoring |
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cultural differences that may cause misunderstanding; Secondly the |
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community is very insular and unwelcoming to new comers. |
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In twelve months of working with people only 2 have actively |
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encouraged involvement (shout out to Idella4 and pacho for this), some |
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projects didn't respond, or if they did they provided no details or |
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feedback to those of us who where new and trying to contribute. I |
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don't want to mention names about the negatives because I don't blame |
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the individuals; it too me seems to be systemic within the community. |
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I have a few comments about how I think you could improve things, but |
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feel free to ignore they are offered in the spirit of constructive |
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criticism: |
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Review your CoC, its open to abuse as pointed out on another thread. |
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Enforcement of rules should be consistent. |
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Review your recruitment strategies, and framework for contribution. |
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https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ might be of interest to some |
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posters! construct a well reason argument - but be prepared to |
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reconsider! |
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Finally encourage Active involvement from all Developers in Gentoo |
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matters not just in their packages, apathy is your worst enemy |
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I have updated one outstanding ticket for bugzilla from last week that |
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was assigned to me as maintainer wanted, and will shortly put through |
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a pull request on github which updates the meta data for bugzilla and |
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displaycal removing me as a maintainer. |
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To end on a positive note, I was a user for many years and will |
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continue for the short term at the very least as I think the concept |
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of gentoo is great. |
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Cheers, |
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Craig |