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Hi Gentoo-Project, |
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Let me first introduce myself to you. |
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I am known in the forum as Slalomsk8er and I am the one that started |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/Problems_at_Gentoo |
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because I believe documenting is better then whining. Besides that, I am a |
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webmaster and server administrator for a living. If you know the Swiss |
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political system you will soon understand why this proposal comes to you |
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from Switzerland. |
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Now to the Problem at hand: |
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This organisation is not able to do any thing then producing code at the |
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moment and this is what produced that mess. |
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The offer from drobbins and the community that wants you by a big 90% to |
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take him by his offer. |
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The developers that don't like his offer because of his style to handle |
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volunteers that don't share his point of view. |
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So what to do: |
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Decline his offer! |
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Forget the Foundation - it is as dead as it can get legal. (how long can |
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Gentoo wait till the assets get lost?) |
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Let the community vote on a constitution for the council. (One from the |
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developers and as much others that have a substancial backing from the |
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community. In Switzerland we normally can vote for 2 to 3 versions of a "hot |
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iron" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum#Switzerland) |
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A new council of 5 persons gets voted that stands under the rules of the new |
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Gentoo constitution by the community at large. |
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(Yes they will vote drobbins in if the likes to accept his nomination in the |
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light of the new rules) |
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Why I think this drastic steps are needed: |
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Gentleman, you screwed big time and the community is pissed! |
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The Gentoo-Project at large lost a lot of trust and credit in the eyes of |
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the community. |
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Hell, I would not even trust a Gentoo-Foundation trustee to feed my pet |
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snails while I am on a vacation! |
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The community will backup the drobbins that the active developers and some |
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forum veterans that spoke at |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html don't want back in charge |
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for what sounds like good reasons. |
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The current situation could, if all goes wrong, lead to a fork. I believe |
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with my knowledge of Gentoo and considering the nature of the Portage-Tree |
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at the heart of this distribution, that this could be the doom for both |
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forks. I have a vivid fantasy and it shows me dropped architectures, |
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invisibility at distrowatch and a dwindling user count. And I don't share |
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the opinion of AllenJB that: If the users leave, there's still the |
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developers and live goes on at Gentoo. |
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New developers need to come from somewhere and fast, as it looks like most |
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developers leave after ~2 years. |
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And the nature of Gentoo's Portage has it that every ebuild wants his |
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maintainer and they are called developers. |
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One last thing in my own interest: |
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Please fill in the gaps at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Problems_at_Gentoo with |
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your internal knowledge. |
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The community needs all information's it can get if it has to vote. This |
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geeks want to know that what they do to there beloved distribution is the |
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right thing to do. |
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Regards, Dominik Riva |