Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:57 AM, David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 08:55 +0100, Lars Wendler wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:48:56 +0300 Eray Aslan wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:20:56PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> * Posting to the list will only be possible to Gentoo developers
>>>> and whitelisted additional participants.
>>>
>>> This is so contrary to what I and I thought Gentoo stands for:
>>> openness, transparency, inclusiveness even when these require a
>>> rather thick skin and result in high noise. It's a price worth
>>> paying.
>>>
>>> I guess I should a) pay more attention to council elections b)
>>> consider the idea that the whole council thing as it stands now is
>>> just not working.
>>
>> Wow. I couldn't have said it better. Seems we're turning into an
>> elitist club or something... I wonder how many users we're going to
>> loose on this one. Well done council :-(
>
> If your only reason to use Gentoo is because you can post to the main
> developer ML, and not because we try to provide a great distribution
> with lots of choice, a current toolchain and lots of customization,
> then you're likely using the wrong distribution.

It's a question of perception. Some users might come to feel that the
Gentoo developers are not interested in their input, unlike the
developers of all other distributions (that I know of).

Gentoo's singling itself itself out as less receptive to its users
simply because some its developers are too Trumpian to resist arguing
with people who criticize their work or Gentoo.