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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 15 June 2013 12:50, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Is Gentoo really a loose association of individualists who care about nothing
> but their own stuff, and give a $(/%& about users or the distribution as a
> whole?
>

Gentoo is not a regular distribution. It is a meta-distribution. This
is because of the nature of the packages and the project structure.
What this means is that each project/herd is a well-defined,
independent, sell-contained entity which deals with a subject of
packages. Each project is free to do whatever it wants to do, without
having to justify its actions to anyone. You may complain as much you
want in the mailing list that eg postfix is terribly broken, deviated
from upstream, dev FooBar is non-cooperative, etc etc but in practice
nobody (except the net-mail members) can do anything to help you.
So yes, individual developers/project can do whatever. They may please
the users or they many not. Sad? yes. True? yes

The Council is supposed to somehow control inter-project
communications when the developers fail to do so, but this rarely
happens.

I suggest to take that into consideration during the upcoming Council
elections. If you don't like the current situation, be part of the
decision making. Yet another recycled thread in the mailing list will
certainly not help.

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Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang