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Am Dienstag, 27. März 2018, 03:54:51 CEST schrieb Daniel Robbins: |
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> Council is related to technical leadership, inter-project technical issues |
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> and issues impacting development, which can include disciplinary issues. |
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> Trustees look out for the long-term health of the project. This includes |
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> legal matters, social contract, and quite a few other things. |
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> I resigned after the initial trustees were appointed. It appears that the |
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> initial trustees had challenges making decisions and leading the project. |
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> However, while they might have been relatively "weak" and had very limited |
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> scope in practice (most likely due to being overwhelmed with their new |
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> responsibilities, learning to run a NFP, etc.which has a very high learning |
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> curve,) that does not mean that the trustees were intended to be passive in |
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> regards to the direction of the project. Non-technical issues that are |
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> large in scope should by default go to the trustees for direction. |
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Daniel, |
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please don't try to wind back the clock. |
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While you were absent, Gentoo has been working just fine, and only because you |
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*intended* for something to develop in a certain way, that doesn't mean that |
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it *did*. |
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I signed up in 2010, for most of the time since then the separation of |
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responsibilities was pretty much clear, and there was no infighting between |
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trustees and council that wasted everyone's time. |
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* The council decided on global issues and steered Gentoo's development in |
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every respect, from personnel to technical issues. |
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* The trustees handed money to infra, filed tax returns and posted financial |
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summaries. (The latter two only occasionally.) |
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Recently some people have proposed the theory that the Gentoo Foundation |
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somehow "owns" Gentoo. The problem is that not many of us see the point of |
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handing over more power to a body that was barely functional at its core |
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competencies for many years, just because its members ask for it. |
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The separation between technical and social responsibilities is a similar |
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myth. Devrel (and now comrel) supervision was always by the council. |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel) |
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