Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
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> > Yeah, see, this is a case where not understanding the structure of
> > Gentoo gives you the wrong impression.  The GDP's policy applies to the
> > GDP.  That is not a global developer policy of any kind.  It is a policy
> > by a project, for that project.
> > 
> > If I were, for example, to write up a nice guide for something on the
> > games team and do it all in ASCII art, that policy has no bearing on
> > what I do.  If I were to write something for the GDP, then it would.
> > 
> > At any rate, that has *zero* bearing on whether or not our update
> > information needs to be written in GuideXML, so there's no point in
> > arguing it with you.
> > 
> 
> So you're saying that Gentoo consists of projects that are completely
> 'silo'd up' and have no bearing whatsoever on each other. Then the
> DevRel project only has bearing on those who actually join DevRel. Neat,
> a group formed for the sole purpose of coordinating itself. Security
> need only concern itself with securing its members (from who knows
> what!), and infra can just ignore the needs of everyone else (different
> project!). I wonder how any of the other projects *ever* made it onto
> the website...

No, he's saying you're talking out of your behind. And you continue to 
do so

Gentoo projects have their own areas of responsibility, the GDP's area 
of responsibility is the GDP, devrel's area of responsibility is 
developers, infra's area of responsibility is infrastructure.

Thank you, come again

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