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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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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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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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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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