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On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:13 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Something has to lead all the pieces into one cohesive Gentoo. |
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> If every piece is left to lead its own, you have a mess. You have what Gentoo |
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> has become without Daniel or any Lead... |
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> Something has to bring everything together and lead the unified direction. |
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You do realize that Gentoo is about choice, right? |
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We're a volunteer based organization. The only way you can truly have |
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a unified direction is by forbidding people from doing things that |
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aren't aligned with that direction. You can't force people to move |
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forward, you can only block them from moving backwards. |
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If a volunteer wants to invest in eudev, great. If they want to |
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invest in udev, great. If they want to invest in systemd, great. We |
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don't pick winners. |
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Now what we do impose is reasonable order to ensure that these kinds |
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of efforts play nicely together. We don't force devs to work on |
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things they don't want to, but we also set guidelines so that others |
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who do want to work on those things can work on changes to individual |
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packages to make them work. If somebody wants to tweak some ebuilds |
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to support multilib in accordance with an agreed-upon plan, they can. |
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If somebody wants to add Prefix support to an ebuild, they can. If |
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somebody wants to add a systemd or openrc unit/script to a package, |
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they can. |
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And as a result we support a lot of things that other distros don't. |
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Now, does that mean that we support the things that any random person |
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thinks we ought to? No. As many have pointed out our java support |
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has been suffering. Ultimately though this requires people to step up |
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and contribute in this area, not some kind of global initiative. |
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And again it isn't like Council members don't step up and try to lead |
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changes. We just don't claim any particular monopoly on doing so, and |
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we're more than happy to endorse changes others are trying to make if |
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it will help them achieve their goals. |
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Rich |
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