On Thursday 19 June 2008 02:43:12 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Nope. What I see as a problem is that the primary author and current > de facto maintainer is so much of an asshole that he was forcibly > removed from the Gentoo project, which PMS is supposed to be written > for, and has ostracized (at least) one of the package manager's > development team with his constant not-so-subtle attacks. Quite > frankly, I'd prefer see Gentoo take control over the specification that > defines the most important single feature of Gentoo and remove the > non-Gentoo developers from its development. No offense, but you're not > a Gentoo developer any longer and you shouldn't have a say in how *we* > manage ourselves. You're more than welcome to contribute code, fork, or > whatever the hell you want. This is open source, after all, but that > doesn't mean you should be allowed to hold the position of power over > Gentoo that you've been granted.
I would like to see Gentoo grow some balls and start banning people from -dev and other media used. I don't mean temporary bans, I mean for life. Yes, it's not nice. Yes, Gentoo should be open for all and encourage participation from all. However, some people have demonstrated time and time again over quite a number of years that they wont change no matter what. These people are posionous [1]. Whilst growing this set of balls, consider scrapping PMS I've yet to see any tangiable gain (from a user perspective) but plently of loss (developers, hair, temper). I'm leaving this list as I want no part in this any longer, so I won't read any replies. Thanks Roy [1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
