M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Warwick Bruce Chapman wrote: >> There is a plethora of potential Gentoo developers out there and this >> sort of press does nothing for getting them any closer to joining the >> effort. Agreed by me at least.
> In any event, the Distrowatch article did not change either my perception > of the quality of Gentoo or rule out me volunteering as a developer. What > it did do is prompt me to reply to the DistroWatch message board, as I > often do. And I said essentially what I've said here -- I am still a > Gentoo loyalist and I haven't seen a decrease in the day-to-day quality of > Gentoo for *any* reason. Yeah I responded to in the end. It might not put you off since, as you say, you have been with gentoo for ages, and are an arch-tester, know the people and so on. It could well put off someone else tho. We haven't seen a decrease in quality either. If anything gentoo is a lot slicker than it used to be (according to my coding guy anyway, and i trust his judgement.) <snip> So -- Gentoo's home page -- the > marketing face of the distro to the world -- invites one and all to join > a discussion on a code of conduct, and most of us, even "advanced" > users, have no idea of the context. That's both good and bad. It's good > -- very good, IMHO -- because it shows that the community is open to > feedback and is willing to announce that. And it's bad because you don't > in general want negativity on your front page. > I think the only bad is that the context isn't clear, which I don't understand at all. After all, it's all over the forums, and any outsiders are probably aware of the mess if they have any interest in gentoo. >> Thus, with all respect due to current and past developers, could I >> suggest that regardless of whether or not the DW article is worth >> consideration, the process of adopting the Communication CoC and the >> structures required to implement it be followed through in the best >> interests of all developers and users of the Gentoo project. > +1, as they say on other lists, with the proviso that the discussion > continue until all have been heard. Processes like this take as long as > they take. > ++ except I don't think ``it'll be ready when it's ready'' will cut it. Certainly 3 days is way too little for such a major change. One month seems long enough to this noob to get enough discussion amongst usrs and devs for a draft which could then be put to a dev vote. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
