On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:12:48 -0700 "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's one thing to make a contribution or submit a patch - it's quite > another to be actively and very significantly involved in a key > technical project that is supposedly defining an interoperability spec > for the key distinguishing feature of Gentoo, namely Portage.
I'd argue that the ebuilds, and not Portage, are the key distinguishing feature of Gentoo. Portage is just a way of using the ebuilds... > Right now, you're effectively doing an end-run around the entire > Gentoo management structure. Fortunately for you, it doesn't look like > anyone cares. Not really. We're working on a document, as requested by the Gentoo management structure, and when it's at a good enough state that we're ready to have it discussed, it will be opened up for comments by Gentoo developers, and once they're satisfied it will be submitted to the Gentoo management structure for approval or otherwise. This is fairly standard practice... What is not standard is all the 'input' from third parties who don't know what PMS is, who is working on it, what its goals are or what it says. I get the impression that a lot of this comes about merely because a few people who don't have anything better to do see certain names associated with it and decide to go on the attack -- knowledge of the topic at hand is considered largely irrelevant... > Really, I find this weird and ambiguous and you should probably be > reinstated as a dev or be bumped off of PMS, which should be managed > by Gentoo developers only. Why does it matter whether it's written by Gentoo developers? What matters is that it's written by people who know what they're talking about and who can write reasonably decent technical material, and as the primary author of the devmanual, a whole load of ebuilds, several eclasses and of the only fully independent reimplementation of ebuild (Pkgcore is in parts based upon Portage code -- whether or not this is a good thing is irrelevant to this discussion), I'd say I qualify in that area... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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