> On Aug 5, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:12 PM Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Prestige is good. We have prestige from our (myself and a few others) work
>> in upstream ZFS and Gentoo is well respected there.
>
> Sure, but ZFS on Linux isn't a Gentoo project.
>
> I'm not saying people who are Gentoo devs can't also do other things.
> Lots of Gentoo devs are involved in lots of stuff that gets a fair bit
> of respect. OpenRC is a big example of this. From time to time I bump
> into signs of Gentoo on upstream projects (just today that included
> SoapySDRPlay).
>
> Also, this gives us an opportunity to set an example, in helping to
> ensure the upstream project is maintained in a distro-friendly manner
> where Gentoo is a first class citizen.
>
> I'm not saying that stuff like this should be banned from infra. It
> just seems like an unnecessary constraint all-around. It means that
> the project has to generally follow Gentoo policies/etc, and is
> limited to the tools we provide. Just something to think about...
Which policies would those be? The upstream projects that we do have as Gentoo
sub-projects seem to have plenty of freedom.
>
>
> --
> Rich
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