From: Stewart Honsberger <blkdeath@gentoo.org>
To: John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-core@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Gentoo part IIa.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:09:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F14515C.6050506@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030715094234.6f6f2636.zhen@gentoo.org>
John Davis wrote:
> Step back for a minute and recognize the ramifications of those numbers. The product that
> we baby and work on is used by over a _quarter of a million_ people.
Over a _quarter of
>a million_ people rely on our QA procedure for stable packages, our
security, our openness.
> No matter what your political philosophy, this fact should awe you.
That's a point I'd have to disagree with you on. A quarter of a million
people enjoy our quick turn-around time and ease for users to become
involved in the development of the distribution. If they're relying on
us for stability or any kind of guarantee of reliability, sorry, but
they're in the wrong place. Debian, RedHat are thattaway -->
Gentoo is a bleeding-edge hacker's distribution. It's Linux From Scratch
with a package manager. It is not a corporate or enterprise platform.
It could develop to the point where we maintain our current status quo
*AND* we find ourselves with a stable branch upon which businesses can
rely, but that is not Gentoo, nor will it be Gentoo if we overlay it
with politics and beaurocracy to the point where users are afraid to get
involved and we find a wedge between the developers and the user base.
If it comes to such a time, I will resign as a developer. I didn't sign
up for this to be some sort of elite beaurocrat with voting authority
and managerial restrictions. I signed up for it so that I could
contribute ebuilds without going through a middle-man.
Your proposal was well written, obviously thought out, and quite
eloquent. However, I think you'd be better served to submit it to
Debian-Private.
--
Stewart Honsberger
Gentoo Developer
http://www.snerk.org/
--
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 13:42 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part IIa John Davis
[not found] ` <1058280489.2910.27.camel@biproc>
2003-07-15 15:06 ` John Davis
2003-07-15 16:15 ` Grant Goodyear
2003-07-15 15:24 ` Brad Laue
2003-07-15 17:44 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] " John Davis
2003-07-15 17:46 ` Martin, Stephen
2003-07-15 17:47 ` John Davis
2003-07-15 19:09 ` Stewart Honsberger [this message]
2003-07-15 19:23 ` [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part III? Daniel Robbins
2003-07-15 20:27 ` John Davis
2003-07-16 0:30 ` Daniel Robbins
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