On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Gentoo is mainly splitted in two: the developers and the council. >
A bit of an odd statement considering all the council members are developers, and were elected by them. If it seems like most devs are at odds with the Council, consider that the Council is only asked to make decisions when there is widespread disagreement, and people tend to not complain when they agree with the decisions that get made. The Council actually fairly supportive of fixing most of the issues you raise, like our dependence on "SVN" (also known as CVS), and the difficulty of contributing patches/etc. The problem is that the transition isn't trivial to make, especially since we're 100% volunteer. There is already a semi-official github repo that anybody can contribute pull requests to, and they get committed to the main tree. So, anybody who prefers to operate in this manner can do so. Unfortunately, though, it seems like our lists tend to be full of these kinds of trolling posts. -- Rich
