Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years...

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:23:17 -0400 William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Monday, October 3, 2016 10:30:11 PM EDT Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
> > On 03/10/16 22:03, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > > Gentoo's entire structure is not what it was intended to be. I have spoken
> > > to Daniel Robbins a few times about this. Things I had in mind long ago
> > > with changing Gentoo's structure, the foundations role, etc were more in
> > > line with what he had intended things to be. Though I believe most do not
> > > want that, likely out of ignorance and status quo, rather than not
> > > wanting thing to change for the good.
> > >
> > > Few projects have structure like Gentoo. Which is also in part why Gentoo
> > > has unique issues, though they can be similar to others. Still very
> > > different just the same. I spent time looking into others, FreeBSD,
> > > Gnome, Debian, etc.
> > Curious, could you elaborate more on this, or just point to archives if
> > you already did?
>
> It has been many years.  I will see what I can scrape together. Essentially
> Daniel intended the Foundation to be much stronger and play a much larger role
> in Gentoo. Somehow it was transformed into a IP holder, legal protection, and
> finances. Cut off from development, no relation to council, or project as
> whole. With other projects, the board tends to control and influence technical
> direction more.

This is called evolution, so I see no problem that Gentoo evolved
into something different from what was originally planned.
 
> Gentoo is some what like a 2 headed snake. Long ago used to be 3, when infra
> was stronger but infra has faded some to where it is just Council and
> Foundation.

This is a separation of power: the legal body is separated from the
technical government. And I find this really great, since Gentoo is
an international community these days.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko