Donnie Berkholz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:02:36 -0700:
> 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. > > Our code is all available in the portage tree or ViewCVS, and so are all > the ebuild bugs in Bugzilla. Nobody's stopping anybody else from > reviewing any submissions or filing new bugs. It's just a question of > who makes (and therefore approves of) the actual commit. > > I don't see where your cathedral is coming from. I'm with Donnie on this. Gentoo's quite the bazaar, IMO. When I read that cathedral thing, my reaction (strong enough to cause a verbal outburst as I read your post), was "Oh, brother! You don't have any idea!" That as I was physically shaking my head. I don't know where you got the idea that Gentoo's a cathedral at all, as it sure looks to be a bazaar from this viewpoint. You /totally/ lost me with that one. I couldn't disagree more! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
