From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9PME-00009x-Ed for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:59:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB8A2E00CA; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80081E00CA for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.213] (unknown [74.92.132.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF3E64FCC for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] From: Ferris McCormick To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080619182837.080b5bed@pheonix> References: <20080611070618.54E4066E24@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080615155052.3376fd83@googlemail.com> <1213839792.4449.7.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <200806191211.12363.roy@marples.name> <20080619182837.080b5bed@pheonix> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-EcN1Pf53zqAFegeuWAYD" Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:59:34 +0000 Message-Id: <1213901974.17140.13.camel@liasis.inforead.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 4aa30f04-957d-47cd-a848-2221da2bfdec X-Archives-Hash: 22a2ad53a2f87483d80fb608f4c31ee2 --=-EcN1Pf53zqAFegeuWAYD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 18:28 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:11:11 +0100 > Roy Marples wrote: >=20 > > On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:43:12 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > Nope. What I see as a problem is that the primary author and > > > current de facto maintainer is so much of an asshole that he was > > > forcibly removed from the Gentoo project, which PMS is supposed to > > > be written for, and has ostracized (at least) one of the package > > > manager's development team with his constant not-so-subtle > > > attacks. Quite frankly, I'd prefer see Gentoo take control over > > > the specification that defines the most important single feature of > > > Gentoo and remove the non-Gentoo developers from its development. > > > No offense, but you're not a Gentoo developer any longer and you > > > shouldn't have a say in how *we* manage ourselves. You're more > > > than welcome to contribute code, fork, or whatever the hell you > > > want. This is open source, after all, but that doesn't mean you > > > should be allowed to hold the position of power over Gentoo that > > > you've been granted. > >=20 > > I would like to see Gentoo grow some balls and start banning people > > from -dev and other media used. I don't mean temporary bans, I mean > > for life. > >=20 > > Yes, it's not nice. Yes, Gentoo should be open for all and encourage=20 > > participation from all. However, some people have demonstrated time > > and time again over quite a number of years that they wont change no > > matter what. These people are posionous [1]. >=20 > Slightly ironic for me to suggest this, but... >=20 > It is the gentoo-dev mailing list, restrict posting to gentoo devs > (i.e. only people with a @gentoo.org email address) would make a lot of > sense. >=20 Not really. It's there for general discussion of development matters, not developer matters. Some of the most interesting posts are from non-developers. gentoo-core is restricted. > Rob. Regards, Ferris --=20 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) --=-EcN1Pf53zqAFegeuWAYD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkharJYACgkQQa6M3+I///d9VQCgi+pJYYOvKdz13iG2huB1OfP3 hS4AoK4MyxMXscG03Wyx9HJzs0nZ8K3G =K4QQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EcN1Pf53zqAFegeuWAYD-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list