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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 4:46 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 03/28/2018 03:58 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: |
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>> I can make not contributions to the development processes for |
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>> Gentoo. |
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> Sure you can; you can provide patches, bug reports, etc at |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org , work on the wiki pages, help answer questions |
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> in forums and other support channels. Why would you think you can't |
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> contribute by not posting (without being whitelisted) to a single |
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> mailing list? |
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Yes, I mispoke a bit. I already do all those things, so it is not a |
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matter of *can't*, |
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but more of a feeling that my contributions "aren't deemed good |
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enough" to be seen |
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in the gentoo-dev list, simply because I fail to perform some |
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arbitrary set of actions |
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that would grant me an imprimature. |
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I am old-fashioned in some ways, this is not what FOSS started out as in |
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the 1970s and 80s. That is NOT to say that all changes are bad, or that anything |
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else is no good; on the contrary, certain changes *had* to occur -- it |
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is just a matter |
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of opinion as to which are 'good', 'neutral', or 'bad.' IMNSHO |
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applying such a drastic |
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measure as this tends towards the 'ill conceived' side of things. |
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Again, I emphasize, I will still use and contribute to Gentoo in the |
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ways I'm allowed |
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to, while still thinking that there are some systemic issues that |
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relate to the power |
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structures used by those running the project. |
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G.Wolfe Woodbury |
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redwolfe@×××××.com |
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