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On 31/03/2018 02:24, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> It is pretty clear to many that the Council has some serious problems and is only nominally supported by developers. |
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> Most of the Council has been re-elected numerous times, usually with |
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> twice as many candidates as posts up for election. If developers |
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> didn't care for them they wouldn't keep voting for them. |
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+1 ; that may still be within the "nominal" support depending on how |
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exactly we understand it. |
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Here's one theory: with Council's limited powers and a lot of day-to-day |
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development not being directly affected by it, the support might not be |
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enthusiastic, just sticking to people known not to cause trouble. |
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My opinion is somewhere in between. There are people in Gentoo I'd |
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enthusiastically support for Council, and I generally respect it. On the |
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other hand, there is obviously room for improvement. |
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>> 2) Encourage Gentoo users to become members of the Foundation through |
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>> outreach and other initiatives. |
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> IMO this is a mistake, because there is no proof of stake. If |
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> somebody actually does have a significant stake and is willing to |
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> accept the responsibilities then they should be made a developer |
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> anyway. |
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+1 ; Gentoo already gives users a lot of power compared to other |
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distros, with its tools philosophy, USE flags, flexibility, offering |
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choice where possible etc. |
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Here's an idea: send users a survey somewhat like |
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<https://blog.golang.org/survey2017-results>, so that there is some |
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general feedback loop mechanism beyond bugs. |
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Paweł |
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