From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HVUlW-0001li-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:36:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2PFXavs015316; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:33:36 GMT Received: from pan.object4.net (pan.object4.net [80.82.141.134]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2PFQwjm002364 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:26:58 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pan.object4.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37836809E for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:26:57 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pan.object4.net X-Spam-Score: -0.566 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.566 tagged_above=-100 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.013, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.046] Received: from pan.object4.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pan.object4.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RXRIqHuwlGUz for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:26:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.0.99] (82-46-45-120.cable.ubr06.newt.blueyonder.co.uk [82.46.45.120]) by pan.object4.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A486809D for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:26:56 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract From: Christel Dahlskjaer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200703250927.49230.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <1174788467.4883.29.camel@bruichladdich> <200703250454.34744.vapier@gentoo.org> <1174826133.4883.45.camel@bruichladdich> <200703250927.49230.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3QudjgJkTaP2vpXECzXE" Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:26:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1174836416.4883.59.camel@bruichladdich> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 X-Archives-Salt: 0a5c2939-ce53-4d3e-b629-e850b97dd480 X-Archives-Hash: f614cb5aff966ede185bc70392d34b41 --=-3QudjgJkTaP2vpXECzXE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 09:27 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 04:54 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Saturday 24 March 2007, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > > > > It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from bein= g > > > > dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of > > > > keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather than any outside party,= how > > > > about the following addition to the Social Contract? > > > > > > > > We will be run by the Development Community > > > > Gentoo will be run by the development community. We will never allo= w > > > > ourselves to be reliant upon a single sponsor or corporation. > > > > > > i dont see why this is required ? ignoring the fact that the wording= is > > > way too vague to do anything but cause confusion and people to spout = long > > > winded rants, seems like useless nitpicking about an issue that doesn= t > > > exist > > > > Supposedly >80% of our stuff is hosted in one building, where would we > > find ourselves were this building to building to burn to the ground? Ge= t > > flooded? >=20 > and how does writing a vague rule into our Social Contract propose to hel= p the=20 > situation ? just because we have a rule that says our infrastructure nee= ds=20 > to be spread out among sponsors doesnt mean sponsors are going to materia= lize=20 > out of nowhere to make this happen >=20 > our machines live where people have been so kind as to offer=20 > space/electricity/bandwidth/etc... I was simply suggesting that perhaps we need to try make sure that when we able to we try ensure that we aren't too reliant upon one single fascility. Perhaps bad wording. --=-3QudjgJkTaP2vpXECzXE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGBpTA0WARHgC5cN0RAijuAKCDe/SuxxsrQa6/XbT0h2VuTh4PkQCfUIby 77Mv+tgcWnXN6QmYtEzjiJQ= =xpxC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3QudjgJkTaP2vpXECzXE-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list