-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Joshua Jackson wrote: >> However, as >> Chris stated loudly, that this is something that falls directly in >> line with Release Engineerings goal. Its not a top level project that >> creates something entirely new. Its a extension of the release of >> images that allow you to install a system. > > Sure, neither is releng creating something entirely new. They're > deriving tarballs and CDs using ebuilds to build packages, so perhaps it > should be a subproject of the base project. You can make the "not > entirely new" argument for literally anything. Oh, and ebuilds wouldn't > work without a package manager, so perhaps all of this should fall under > the Portage project. But Portage wouldn't exist without people to work > on it, so maybe Devrel should be in charge of everything. > >> Thus in my opinion it being a top level project is to use what someone >> else said is ludicrous. >> Treecleaners is another newer project that has >> spawned and its a subproject of the QA team. Why can't the seeds group >> be a part of the Releng group. The entire point of the teams is to >> assist each other for a combined benefit. Being a top level project, >> you are in essence saying that we want to do this on our own without >> the help of a group that has been doing a less focused version of what >> you are aiming to provide. > > What I am getting from this is that you do not think people can > collaborate if they're not part of the same project. Being a project > just says that a group of developers want to work toward a certain goal. > > I encourage everyone to read over > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0039.html and look at exactly > what a project is. > > Thanks, > Donnie > Oh lovely gross generalization time to use to prove points wrong because there isn't any real argument against them *nods* I'm glad we've reached this point of the conversation so quickly. It'll mean that someone will be calling someone else a member of a certain organization that kills all conversations. This is progressing nicely.
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