Brian Harring posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:49:56 -0800:
> Note I said 'intentional'; seems like people have been pushing for > gentoo as a whole to slow down (note the enterprise > concerns/complaints that hit the ml every 6 months for example). > > Dunno. Maybe it's all a ramble, maybe you think I'm a loon, but final > point I'm going to make is that pushing for a global solution (whether > a BDFL or board or committee) totally is missing the actual issue- > that individuals get things done, the larger the # of folks involved > in progressing towards something the slower they're going to move. This man speaks my mind. That's one of the things I'm worried about with the Enterprise Gentoo thing, and why I think it will make a better separate project than part of Gentoo itself. Anyone who thinks Gentoo isn't progressing simply isn't seeing the forest for all the trees, as they say. Another way of putting it is that Gentoo seems to be in that critical period after the honeymoon, it has hit its middle-aged crisis. Reality has set in -- we're not going to magically move mountains, as yes, a mountain /can/ be moved, see the history of the Panama canal for instance, but it takes a *LOT* of work, a LOT of investment, and sometimes even some deaths along the way. During that time, progress may seem painfully slow, yet it never-the-less occurs. What's the alternative, dumping the project and leaving it for dead? Then all that work and investment, and all those deaths, /will/ be in vain. OTOH, after a certain point, which Gentoo seems to have reached, throwing more bureaucracy at a project, as seems to be part of the proposal here, does more harm than good. I'm with Brian, here. If we want progress, we gotta slack off on the regulation a bit and give the folks actually down there getting their hands dirty some room to work, at least if we aren't willing (or able) to get in there with them. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
