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 4.54) id 1Etwhm-0008FE-GA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:40:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k040dVg1005447; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:39:31 GMT Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([65.98.89.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k040aSUY003151 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:36:28 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EE67D53E for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:36:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (halcy0n.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07769-08 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:36:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 601877D53F; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:36:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:36:22 -0500 From: Mark Loeser To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20060104003622.GB6579@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <1136228634.23404.125.camel@localhost> <20060102194954.GB7125@gentoo.org> <1136232723.23404.154.camel@localhost> <20060102204604.GC7125@gentoo.org> <43B99539.70409@gentoo.org> <1136238763.23404.171.camel@localhost> <1136295292.27358.8.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060103220424.GA6579@aerie.halcy0n.com> <43BAFCD3.6050108@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43BAFCD3.6050108@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at halcy0n.com X-Archives-Salt: 17c0e6f8-8cd4-4fa7-9a70-64515c9396ca X-Archives-Hash: fbc4d6fa269150d08eae68b62d4a0edf --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lance Albertson said: > Mark Loeser wrote: > > Chris Gianelloni said: > >>I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a > >>meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution > >>easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. > >> > >>I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause > >>friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving > >>certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to > >>have a single direction. > >=20 > >=20 > > +1 > >=20 > > Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some so= rt of > > "global vision" we are only going to restrict this. >=20 > I never meant that each subproject can't have their own goals. They need > to have those of course! I was more directed that there isn't a person > in charge of all the subprojects just to keep track of them (Not > governing them). i.e. if subproject foo is working on adding feature X > to portage, then this person could make sure the portage people know > that these folks are wanting to add that feature instead of blind siding > them. Of course, if we lived in a perfect world, they would go ahead and > work together like that. I'm not stating that we'd want to restrict > everyone from doing what they want, just that there's some kind of > direction/guidance/overall project manager that keeps track of all these > projects. They would keep track of all this and report back to the > council/devs/etc. So, is this something like Koon's "MetaBug" thing? (I have no idea what th= at is besides what Chris just said about it). I just don't want to see someone else telling the subprojects how to run their team, or what goals they shou= ld have. --=20 Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDuxiGCRZPokWLroQRAsypAJ9j8GfeAnrEie1LP1aQnUEortbXJwCdFffF 0ZWp95zaComzzaEhPF+Ej/Y= =Xc/S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list