Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mark Loeser wrote: > > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a > >>meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution > >>easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. > >> > >>I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause > >>friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving > >>certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to > >>have a single direction. > > > > > > +1 > > > > Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some sort of > > "global vision" we are only going to restrict this. > > I never meant that each subproject can't have their own goals. They need > to have those of course! I was more directed that there isn't a person > in charge of all the subprojects just to keep track of them (Not > governing them). i.e. if subproject foo is working on adding feature X > to portage, then this person could make sure the portage people know > that these folks are wanting to add that feature instead of blind siding > them. Of course, if we lived in a perfect world, they would go ahead and > work together like that. I'm not stating that we'd want to restrict > everyone from doing what they want, just that there's some kind of > direction/guidance/overall project manager that keeps track of all these > projects. They would keep track of all this and report back to the > council/devs/etc.
So, is this something like Koon's "MetaBug" thing? (I have no idea what that
is besides what Chris just said about it). I just don't want to see someone
else telling the subprojects how to run their team, or what goals they should
have.
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