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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G7VZz-0000tf-5l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:04:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6VB3N1u014934; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:03:23 GMT Received: from mail-3.mx.x-taskforce.com (83-103-22-35.ip.fastwebnet.it [83.103.22.35]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6VB1Fi6029289 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:01:16 GMT Received: from [83.211.159.113] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by mail-3.mx.x-taskforce.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1G7VWG-0004P9-Nv for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:09 +0200 Message-ID: <44CDE310.4060502@bug.it> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:36 +0200 From: Giacomo Cariello Organization: BSD Users Group Italia User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060605) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation References: <200607301751.14157.vapier@gentoo.org> <20060730230757.5c17c0e9@snowdrop.home> <200607302219.56872.vapier@gentoo.org> <1154340702l.9965l.0l@spike> In-Reply-To: <1154340702l.9965l.0l@spike> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8748e21a-287b-4d0d-8c2a-3db7c2b2cdb7 X-Archives-Hash: 1a50c31a2036324019f56bdf3cbcc68f Roy Bamford wrote: > Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system down. A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is going to run a Gentoo School with courses for developers, that sounds cool (and may relieve some burden from the developers mentors). Probably its objectors just want the project to formalize its methods before official launch. In regard to the "rule of thumb" you suggest to verify average quality, I wouldn't consider a reliable way to assess quality. I suppose that part of responsibility of Gentoo towards their users consist in "using caution" in their choices. Caution suggest that you cannot suppose the long-term effects by measuring the current, limited, 150-ebuilds version of this project. Also, it's better to debate this path now, rather than wait until we realize Gentoo cannot handle at least minimal safety of a 100000-ebuilds user-contributed overlay used by hundreds/thousands of people and throw it in the dustbin with a "we said that if it doesn't work, we kill it" quote. It would be a lack of respect towards the efforts of users that contributed to it. - Giacomo 'jwk' Cariello -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list