Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for Candidates (was: Questioning/Interviewing council nominees)

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

hasufell schrieb:
>>> I think we will not improve as a distro if we do not redefine our
>>> priorities.
>>> I have the feeling that our work is not user-centered anymore, but
>>> developer-centered and that concept is simply wrong and no sane business
>>> manager would ever disagree.
>>
>> If you want a user-centric distro which is run by business managers, that
>> niche is already occupied. If Gentoo tried to achieve a linear user
>> experience, putting uniformity over diversity, then we'd just become a poor
>> copy of Ubuntu. Would it increase our user base? Probably. Would it still be
>> Gentoo? I'm not sure.
>
> That is wrapping words in my mouth or at least misunderstanding on
> purpose. Please read more carefully.

What I got from your statement is that you want to redefine Gentoo
priorities, become more user-centric, and do less things that a business
manager would not approve.
If that is not your position then I take back my above statement.

> Ofc we have our low-level principles that might not change in the
> forseeable future, but that does not mean we can ignore what our
> community thinks and circumvent conflict resolution by avoiding each
> other which is basically what that sounds like.

If conflict resolution actually means impose a change in a package onto the
maintainer against his will, then I am all for circumventing it.

> Bringing up the word "ubuntu" in this dicussion is a really poor thing.

You brought up "business" so I thought I'd return the favor. :)

> Do you hold the concept of "maintainership" over "common sense"?

I feel like I am starting to repeat myself, and possibly we have lost the
others, so unless pressed I am going to add some clarification to my
manifesto rather than making further replies to this thread.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn