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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [RFC] Undertakers: appeal policy
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:23:00
Message-Id: B1EC1B5F-757F-4E81-9773-67F4541B77A8@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [RFC] Undertakers: appeal policy by "Michał Górny"
1 On September 21, 2019 2:48:29 PM EDT, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >On Sat, 2019-09-21 at 14:36 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> Our PMS is largely maintained
4 >> by a former dev who many do not get along with.
5 >
6 >This is not true. It is maintained by a few active Gentoo devs,
7 >and by a quick peak last non-Gentoo-dev patch was committed in 2012.
8 >In fact, EAPI 7 has been rejected in Paludis.
9 >
10 >> Our founder isn't
11 >> really involved as a dev but never wanders too far and maintains a
12 >> fairly friendly fork.
13 >
14 >'Friendly fork', right. I guess everyone is welcome to watch and make
15 >his/her own opinion. However, it doesn't sound like you really have
16 >verified any of those statements.
17 >
18 >That's just to correct things. Now, guys, can we please stay on topic?
19 >
20 >I welcome all your support but of the three replies so far, nobody has
21 >provided any opinion on the proposal in question.
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23 The proposal is good, but I find it unnecessary at the same time.
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25 Of the devs appealing their retirement at the 11th... I find most of them have spent more time debating then just making a few simple commits to be active.
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27 Conversely, I see devs who just contribute and the undertaker's reverse the retirement process.
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29 Contribute || retire.
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33 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.