Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 12 January 2008, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership.
> What about it ? Read
> http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html

I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's 
blog has promoted me to finally open my mouth and express my views.

Daniel is in a tricky position - he is the legal President of the 
Foundation but also has no role in the project in real life.

There is no evidence whatsoever that the Trustees as a group have ever 
done a single thing for Gentoo in three years. The fundamental 
responsibility of Trustees is to ensure that legal paperwork is 
properly filed, they did not even do this. Grant Goodyear is getting 
some things done but he's doing it as one person. Chris is in a similar 
position. But the Trustees, as a body with specific duties, simply does 
not exist in any reasonable definition of Trustees.

I used to read -dev and various council mailing lists a long time ago as 
I wanted to keep up to date with these things as a user. I unsubscribed 
because I couldn't stand the constant bickering going on there. OSS 
projects always have their laundry out in the public eye and some 
conflict is always present but Gentoo management manages to take this 
to a whole new level - from on outsider's point of view, the bickering 
is done for the sake of bickering, and it does not result in decisions 
being made or solutions found.

Ciaran Mcreesh - I am very specifically looking at you here.

The council - I'm not up to date on that aspect so can't comment.

When I read about current Gentoo politics I can't help but constantly 
think of just one word:

Stampede.


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