Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for Candidates (was: Questioning/Interviewing council nominees)

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Rich,

I think you missed a lot of points I was making.

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:21:25PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:08 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:37:57PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> >> hasufell schrieb:
> >> >> They can each have their own ebuild in portage. I do not think that overlays
> >> >> are the solution here.
> >> >
> >> > That idea is so bad I hope we will never see it happen.
> >>
> >> That's what GLEP 39 explictly allows.
> >
> > I have to agree on this point. glep 39 allows, and should allow
> > competing projects.
> 
> GLEP 39 ALLOWS me to make a competing apache ebuild, or a competing
> amd64 arch.  It doesn't FORCE me to do so.
> 
> If all I want to do is introduce some optional feature distro-wide
> that doesn't impact anybody who doesn't want to use it (aside from
> trivial numbers of inodes), then I shouldn't HAVE to fork every
> package in the tree to do it.

I am agreeing with you on this. I never said that glep 39 forces you to
do anything.

> I'm a developer because I'm also a user.  Nobody pays me to work on
> ebuilds - I'm scratching my itch.  Nobody is asking maintainers to
> scratch somebody else's itch - they just have to stay out of the way
> when somebody else chooses to do so.

Agreed; this is all about cooperation instead of being territorial.

> > By the nature of being a source based distribution, we can offer a
> > uniform user experience without being a poor copy of any binary
> > distribution, and that uniform user experience could be far more
> > flexable than any binary distribution.
> 
> Absolutely, but that flexibility depends on a certain amount of
> standardization. 

I'm not contesting this. Honestly I'n not quite sure how to respond to
anything else in this message because I agree with you as I said in my
manifesto. I feel like maintainers should cooperate with other
projects/teams/developers.
William

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