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 1EuMLw-0007b6-Oh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:03:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0543334012743; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:03:03 GMT Received: from perch.kroah.org (mail.kroah.org [69.55.234.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0540rRL007058 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:00:54 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.115.24]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0540pL24922 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:00:51 -0800 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1EuMFO-6El-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:57:06 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:57:06 -0800 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20060105035706.GA23895@kroah.com> References: <200601011053.k01ArjOh019213@robin.gentoo.org> <43B96D6D.8080107@gentoo.org> <1136226795.8779.10.camel@localhost> <43B975FD.1000401@gentoo.org> <1136228634.23404.125.camel@localhost> <1136230095.8779.32.camel@localhost> <43BAB220.1030601@gentoo.org> <43BAB438.8000301@gentoo.org> <1136312226.27358.59.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060105035857.GH1967@mail.lieber.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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060105035857.GH1967@mail.lieber.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 4c0f5f34-e536-4e4c-aab2-6b027fd700bf X-Archives-Hash: a9889abf2374e93471ce71154edaa25b On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:58:57AM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni > wrote: > > Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo is not anything more than > > a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a > > collaborative and collective manner. You cannot use corporate thinking > > to manage such a beast. We don't have mission statements. We don't have > > road maps. We don't have quarterly earnings and market projections. We > > simply exist. > > Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow > decline. Ok, then what should Gentoo do to fix this percieved decline? > > Do you want to be a part of a project that doesn't allow you to > > implement some cool new feature because it might make Gentoo slightly > > harder to use for some people and that's against the mission statement > > so not allowed? > > Yes, absolutely. We need a mission statement first :) thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list