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Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the |
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foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using |
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gentoo, I never get any political announcement, maybe because I didn't |
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look at the right place, or maybe there was no. I mean that except the |
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Gentoo's Philosophy and the Gentoo's Social Contract, I didn't see |
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politic, for my eyes were probably closed. |
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It doesn't mean I didn't enjoyed gentoo, its power, its flexibility, its |
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community. But I certainly missed something. There are so many ways to |
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communicate (lists, IRC, boards, wikis, project pages, etc.) that I must |
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admit I'm sometime lost. |
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Today, I learn we're in trouble. Good. What trouble ? What's happening ? |
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Why through the words of Daniel Robbins, I feel some fear ? I feel he |
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foresees a dead end and offers an opportunity to change before it is too |
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late. Once more, to quote Matrix, "the problem is choice". In Free |
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Software, there are often choices where the community can get involved |
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in and it makes our strength. The problem is, and is not, legal papers. |
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Because, IMO, legal papers are the visible part of an Iceberg. Could |
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someone tell me what *really* is the crisis ? If people did not do what |
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they were supposed to do : what should they have done ? |
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Thanks. |
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Alan McKinnon a écrit : |
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> On Saturday 12 January 2008, alain.didierjean@××××.fr wrote: |
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>> Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. |
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>> What about it ? Read |
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>> http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html |
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> |
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> I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's |
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> blog has promoted me to finally open my mouth and express my views. |
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> |
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> Daniel is in a tricky position - he is the legal President of the |
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> Foundation but also has no role in the project in real life. |
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> There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trustees as a group have ever |
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> done a single thing for Gentoo in three years. The fundamental |
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> responsibility of Trustees is to ensure that legal paperwork is |
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> properly filed, they did not even do this. Grant Goodyear is getting |
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> some things done but he's doing it as one person. Chris is in a similar |
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> position. But the Trustees, as a body with specific duties, simply does |
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> not exist in any reasonable definition of Trustees. |
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> I used to read -dev and various council mailing lists a long time ago as |
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> I wanted to keep up to date with these things as a user. I unsubscribed |
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> because I couldn't stand the constant bickering going on there. OSS |
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> projects always have their laundry out in the public eye and some |
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> conflict is always present but Gentoo management manages to take this |
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> to a whole new level - from on outsider's point of view, the bickering |
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> is done for the sake of bickering, and it does not result in decisions |
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> being made or solutions found. |
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> |
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> Ciaran Mcreesh - I am very specifically looking at you here. |
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> The council - I'm not up to date on that aspect so can't comment. |
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> When I read about current Gentoo politics I can't help but constantly |
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> think of just one word: |
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> Stampede. |
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