Nathan L. Adams wrote:
What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those
folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are
allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when
some bug is found. If you believe Chris Gianelloni's argument, then only
those blessed developers who are also blessed by a particular group
within Gentoo are allowed. Eventually the meritocracy degrades into a
popularity contest.
Untrue.
Anyone is welcome to submit ebuilds/bugs-reports/comments/suggestions/etc ,
actually the users are a central and important point for the development
of Gentoo, anyone can go to bugs.gentoo.org and fix a bug, anyone can get a
a box running with only masked packages and report any problem, or even
better,
report that applications work good to arch teams (A BIG HELP), so,
i don't see anyone stoping users to do any of those tasks , do you?
In other words, if you really really want to cooperate with this project,
you are welcome, anybody is welcome.
Gentoo is the biggest and more open GNU/Linux project out there,
and i could make this email very _long_ explaining way, but i won't, i think
we have already had too much with this thread, so do your homework and
go to figure out the reasons by yourself (check for example Fedora,
Debian, Ubuntu ....).
Also, please, stop talking non-sense about the 'cathedral/baazar' model,
you apparently only read the cover of the book. How do i know?, well,
because you sent this email.
Didn't want to get into this thread.. but i couldn't resist...
Off.
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