On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins > <rafaelmart...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some >> disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't sponsored by >> Gentoo, but this udev-ng/eudev/whatever thing does the opposite and >> actually advertise the Gentoo sponsorship with the sentence "This is a >> Gentoo sponsored project and testing is currently being done with >> openrc." in their README >> >> I don't think that someone can claim this sponsorship without a council vote. >> > > Read GLEP 39. Any dev can create a project. Granted, most Gentoo > projects don't follow the GLEP to the letter, and as long as nothing > goes wrong it isn't a big problem. The council can step in if > necessary, but having some source out on github won't kill anybody.
Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any review of the council. I agree that it can exists in the Github account, or even in our own infrastructure, but say that Gentoo supports it without a previous analysis of the council is wrong IMHO. > Keep in mind though that using github exclusively isn't exactly > aligned with the social contract - I would encourage having the > sources on Gentoo servers. That said, I don't think it matters where > people do the work vs what is the mirror - just nobody should be > forced to use github (proprietary) to contribute. > > As long as everybody behaves Gentoo devs can work on whatever they > want to. None of us are paid to do this. > > If a bunch of strangers made the same claim I'd be more concerned. > > If anybody feels a Gentoo project is out of line feel free to submit a > bug to the Council or Trustees as appropriate. However, please save > that for things like "they're breaking the law" or "they refuse to > have elections for a lead" or whatever, and not "I don't like what > they're working on." The recourse for the latter is to adjust your > profile/USE-flags/killfile as appropriate. > > Rich > -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
