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 1I9YRO-0005Kr-K9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:37:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6E3a4Gp010542; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:36:04 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 l6E3YKJs008412 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:34:20 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.100] (ip72-220-190-134.sd.sd.cox.net [72.220.190.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C49A652EA for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <46984447.2010404@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:34:31 -0700 From: Josh Saddler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070627) 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] ML changes References: <46968E00.4070202@gentoo.org> <1184308886.9892.48.camel@tuxhugs> <1184310715.26227.29.camel@localhost> <1184348020.8347.32.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <1184372033.8212.13.camel@localhost> <20070714021109.GS12664@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20070714021109.GS12664@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig511DE4CA86983E68415C2E95" X-Archives-Salt: c1d0bf12-ae0f-48e7-a804-432b638171d2 X-Archives-Hash: 517c7f3dc8a6acaa56b60685db9b10e8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig511DE4CA86983E68415C2E95 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:13:53PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: >> My thought is this: everyone should try and evaluate their own behavio= ur >> on this list, and the method in which they treat others. If each of u= s >> actually thought about the effects of our attitudes, this discussion >> might well be moot. > In the June meeting, I repeated my opinion that _every_ member of the > list (but esp. the developers) should strive to hold themselves to > FreeNode's Catalyst (http://freenode.net/catalysts.shtml) ideal. >=20 > This was related to the original goals of the CoC in the first place. > The CoC lost sight of the aim to get Gentoo to function better. >=20 > Whatever the council has tried, it seems that general history is being > repeated in microcosm with Gentoo: You cannot enforce morality nor > ethics. >=20 > At the same time, you cannot remove any that disrupt the community. > This includes both=20 > - Forcibly: There are plenty that believe dropping Mr McCreesh and Mr > Long would improve the perceived health of the list. The opponents of= > such call this censorship. > - and 'not feeding the trolls' because as long as they have an interest= > in Gentoo itself, they will remain (for the same reason that > developers stay). Good points from both Robin and Seemant, and I'm glad Robin brought up the fact that there are other trolls on the list, though more crude and less sophisticated in their approach. As we've seen, there are long-term and short-term folks on the list who have some interest in their heads, and that will also disrupt the community, regardless of whether forcible action is taken. > Thus the council (both the present one, as well as the incoming council= ) > stand between a rock and a very hard place. They stand charged with > improving the perception of Gentoo, improving communication on the list= s > AND not alienating any part of the community. Alienation might happen regardless. It may not be a bad thing either; neither good nor bad, simply something that happens. There are polarizing issues plain and simple -- multiple package managers, PMS, creating the CoC and similar, anything from the last year. If you try to placate everyone, no one will end up happy and things grind to a halt. > Compare it to now, and I read things like bug #184597, and I am ashamed= > to see that 3 teams rebuffed a potential new developer. That degree of > elitism just hurts. I understand Gentoo has always been a meritocracy, > but it is an open one, that lets folk get started regardless. I think the charge of "elitism" is neither fair nor accurate. It seems like simple smart decision-making: the teams have never had any prior experience with that developer, despite his request in the bug to join them. They haven't seen his technical skills. I know we wouldn't let anyone in the GDP unless we'd seen a history of valuable contributions and the candidate displayed considerable familiarity with GuideXML. It's not applying some arbitrary elitism; it's maintaining technical standards so that stuff doesn't break. > How do we get Gentoo back to where it was? That I cannot answer.=20 "Where it was" must be defined first. Where it was a year ago? Where it was when there were fewer people? The further back in time you go, the smaller the pool of users, developers, packages, and available tools & technology. As more people showed up, more friction occurred. From what I've seen there's always some constant level of friction, however low it may ebb from time to time. I remember that within the last few months there have been a few low-level scattered queries about "how would it work" if some group of developers forked. The primary sentiment behind such an occurence would be to create a better (and smaller) community of developers and some kind of different structure that allows for proper self-policing. This sounds like what Gentoo may have been like when it was still relatively new -- if Gentoo was ever manageable, that is. Is a fork the solution to what you want? Who knows. --------------enig511DE4CA86983E68415C2E95 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGmERL5aFMlhMsVyURAt83AKDET+svdgEMXwJ4OaOJHHmvBQ8OGACgma5D RNsLoANPKYb86xezZ/Jf53Q= =nMFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig511DE4CA86983E68415C2E95-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list