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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:19 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday, January 5, 2017 3:58:44 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> If somebody has an idea for where they want to take Gentoo I hope |
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>> they're not waiting until they win an election to implement it. |
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> What about things like Gentoo certifications? That can come from anyone |
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> anywhere? |
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Sure, why couldn't it? If they need some kind of blessing from on |
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high at some point they need only ask. |
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> It is naive to thing anyone developer or contributor can lead Gentoo |
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> as a total project. |
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Nor should they. Creating Gentoo certifications doesn't require |
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telling anybody else what they can/can't do. Nor does improving Java |
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support, or making Gentoo more suitable for any particular purpose. |
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Somebody just needs to create it, either through personal effort, or |
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for gathering others with a like mind. |
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eudev was created because a bunch of developers wanted to create it. |
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Now everybody else can choose to use it or not as their preference. |
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What could a "Chief Architect" do besides just pick one winner and |
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have everybody else go elsewhere? The Council was involved in getting |
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to where we are, mostly by ironing out compromises so that the various |
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options can co-exist and somebody can run eudev and sysvinit without |
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having to fork the entire rest of the distro. |
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Rich |
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