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Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: |
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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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> I am equally agnostic of Gentoo management politics, albeit grateful that |
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> people volunteer their time and effort to keep it going. From the little |
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> exposure that I have had to it all it seems to me that Alan's views ring |
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> depressingly true. I read Daniel's blog and cannot disagree with what he |
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> suggests - it makes common sense that users views and desires should |
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> determine Gentoo's direction, but I have not read between the lines to see |
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> how might his proposals lead to directions that I would not readily agree |
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> with. See this excerpt of his below from OSNews.com in 2002: |
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> "I very much want to find a way to turn the Gentoo Linux project into a |
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> profitable enterprise. My main motivation in wanting to do this is so I can |
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> stop living from paycheck to paycheck and focus my professional efforts |
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> exclusively on Gentoo Linux development. Many of our developers would like to |
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> do the same thing" |
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> (I am not critising this statement of his; after all I would very much like to |
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> find myself a sustainable way of being able to do what I like - without |
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> having to spend the biggest part of my day in my current job.) |
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> Giving a free hand to any single person is not safe in my humble view, |
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> especially if that person is employed by Microsoft - I will find hard to rest |
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> assured that there will be no conflict of interest. On the other hand it |
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> seems that Gentoo desperately needs *mature* leadership, which can fulfill |
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> some rather significant responsibilities. From what I read the current |
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> Gentoo administration and management setup does not seem to be able to behave |
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> with the professionalism required to achieve that. This makes me anxious for |
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> the future of Gentoo. |
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> Just my 2c's. |
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I have been using Gentoo for about 4 or 5 years now. I to think Gentoo |
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has well, lost its way. It seems like a bunch of teenagers is running |
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it sometimes. They decide something then go back a few steps when they |
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don't like the results. Proctors come to mind on that. Users seems to |
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be the last thing on the higher ups mind. That is not good. |
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I love my Gentoo but I would like to see someone step up and get some |
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things done and some decisions made, even those we may never know about. |
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I just don't want to see Gentoo fall into the abyss. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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