Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo as a team effort

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 06/17/2013 12:15 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Of course many developers do care about more than their own turf. It is
> just that they are not *required to care* if they don't want to, or policy
> mandates that they must care.
> 
One of my favorite things about open source in general is that I get to
work on what I want to, failing that I get to work on what I feel I need
to work on most (whatever that means to me at the time).  There is no
policy, nor should there ever be, which would FORCE a FOSS developer to
work on something they don't want to.

That said, just because I don't care about systemd/eudev/pinkponies
doesn't give me any right to block it's support in the tree or even in
the packages I am primary maintainer of.  You want to add new xyz
blahblah support to one of my packages?  Go for it, if you don't break
my package I won't care (but the bugs with xyz blahblah may be
reassigned to the xyz blahblah team).

No one should have the right to tell me what I have to work on just like
I shouldn't have the right to tell anyone else not to work on something.
 Your freedom ends at the tip of my nose, and after that...

- -Zero

(just in case it doesn't read clearly this is a general response on the
topic not a scathing attack on chithead, it's really hard to completely
avoid speaking in 2nd person.)
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