From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30268 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Jul 2003 05:53:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 16436 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 05:53:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3F1396D7.80206@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 01:53:27 -0400 From: William McArthur User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030714214621.33b75fbd.zhen@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030714214621.33b75fbd.zhen@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=6.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part II. X-Archives-Salt: a8d13e19-5e90-4243-811b-614e1d553cec X-Archives-Hash: 7585ce9a43fe2dac3c6ad3ed6fb5dd37 Read: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html The important part to lift from that essay is that not all memebers of a group need equal say. Gentoo needs, and already has IMO, a passionate core group that *leads* the project. Also, there is a point where more policy/procedure becomes too much. One thing I learned back when I was an active gentoo "developer" back in 2001/2002 was that everyone want's to leave their mark on the project. While good intentioned, not all marks are really improvements. My $0.02. Sandy McArthur -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list