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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HVXFN-0002JZ-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:15:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2PIE9IH012897; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:14:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2PIC4p2010435 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:12:05 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (pool-151-203-195-204.bos.east.verizon.net [151.203.195.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF90F64997 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12746 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2007 13:05:45 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2007 13:05:45 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed addition to the Social Contract Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:10:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <1174788467.4883.29.camel@bruichladdich> In-Reply-To: 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; boundary="nextPart1208220.D4JzHPuhIe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703251410.43819.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 400c03c6-4871-4e6d-91e9-f923df8cfb34 X-Archives-Hash: f8076fee3068fe8c2d21a75d95da5dc5 --nextPart1208220.D4JzHPuhIe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 25 March 2007, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > I'd like to ask what are the negative side-effects of adding such > paragraph. Are there any true negative side-effects to a specification > like that? > > A different topic is the way the paragraph is written. If we don't > like how it is written, we can change it and problem solved. it isnt a different topic because as pointed out, it's very easy to skew th= e=20 meaning to apply to anything and then screw ourselves there's also the matter that if some more sponsors were to drop us, we'd th= en=20 have to worry about our infrastructure being "evenly" spaced out among the= =20 remaining sponsors ... and then we could run into situations where sponsors= =20 offered more resources and we were forced to say no because our social=20 contract was too restrictive considering the pita this adds to address an issue that doesnt exist, seems= =20 like a no brainer to me: dont do it > To be honest, protecting ourselves from things that now seem > improbable, isn't such a bad idea. and where exactly do you stop ? =2Dmike --nextPart1208220.D4JzHPuhIe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARga7I0FjO5/oN/WBAQLzDRAArfuPSM9MlJCwhCqDPNWDVzdsj80QHgRW c58cyjEk8mSTeNIhKGkVDph1AUSIeFlzUswSBJO3NLHCPrpHDvx203ZbkchITnwB vcDHfirq+92R2yKcezLBtIwN0WTyz99nFUjJaRD8Q6Srti3nPjElw6o/i18+o+91 68tZnqRFhftk5mJ47qS0x8K1nurmzyv6sGX57G7UUkR3CwA5/3RlMptQLL9KyNBS DpL0zCfDcyUxIuZ/RaNUT/wExVSQ9c638zkDtNhQBq0VNlVDk4qcvLvex2O776sa /PaymSKz28X4+egXWCxyeVf6zcpoflDCHtnWU/I0kkiJtHpWBCpR/QLOIdELpZc8 T/AwNfBVudQETYvoPdYQn0qvS2tyOIISXtxIboLJM+Y+A8gs4mIFmVeaktWHrNTx BtITjjuvd4FxiegoZ2C1BiHloIIFguPA25coidItVbZWMbH2hBjPQWM0iUcMxs/8 XeXAclzoCB3708gD9n0L0AlNs+pVZp+DYvsdz6xc4gj8xdpdYtb/OI+CsaVZYmjc h68DPeFpDx9seLG8j/soXJbeMXlijf95Gl50L4ZEUyDxwCmp3JUKd2QZv+g3hBtf 0RLi+c+kQ1LgW8B+YLAJVj1XnfqKZJMyDS9m3ycATekXV91bm/tVD96QcuqW7IWa P24Pnhzj0II= =hetA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1208220.D4JzHPuhIe-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list