From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:30:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228771834.6035.571.camel@liasis.inforead.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b41005390812081256q27fdd178me50563dbc2b9fed2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 12:56 -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Wulf C. Krueger <wk@mailstation.de> wrote:
> > On Monday, 08. December 2008 17:37:42 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> >> Open and public debate about the right way to do things does take
> >> longer, and it's something you certainly participate in quite
> >> frequently so I'm surprised to hear you badmouth it when it comes to
> >> your own ideas.
> >
> > It's not about Ciaran's (or anyone's ideas). We openly and publicly discuss
> > such things in Exherbo, too. Not endlessly, though, but we get to an actual
> > decision in a much shorter timeframe.
> >
> > Of course, Ciaran plays along the Gentoo way of either discussing things
> > till a) people are sufficiently annoyed about the length of the thread to
> > stop reading it at all (the normal procedure), b) the council decides to
> > postpone the decision to the next meeting during which it gets postponed to
> > the next meeting (and so on) or c) it's being decided that it's not needed
> > (only to discover half a year later that an issue has to be worked around
> > again because the real solution was treated in the way of a) or b)). :-)
> >
> > So this is not badmouthing but dealing with the facts of Gentoo.
>
> s/Gentoo/Any 'large' organization with little or no management/
>
> it turns out this is a problem in a number of other organizations;
> hopefully Gentoo will get better at addressing them.
>
> -Alec
>
Interesting (and valid) point. Perhaps this argues for more (or more
active) mamagement.
> >
> > Best regards, Wulf
>
Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-05 20:08 [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help Doug Goldstein
2008-12-06 15:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-07 7:44 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-12-07 14:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-08 16:37 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-12-08 17:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-08 18:19 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-12-08 18:28 ` nikos roussos
2008-12-08 18:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-08 19:00 ` Geralt
2008-12-08 17:49 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2008-12-08 20:56 ` Alec Warner
2008-12-08 21:30 ` Ferris McCormick [this message]
2008-12-09 13:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
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