Hi, james: > On 12/06/2016 11:35 AM, Craig Inches wrote: >> Hi, > >> I have decided to stop involvement with the Project as a proxied >> maintainer, and to stop pursuing becoming a developer. Two main >> reasons for this, one the community is at times openly hostile on the >> mailing lists and IRC, of which I have asked people on IRC about whom >> have responded this is the norm(once in awhile vents is fine it >> happens but this has been consistently visible) this is ignoring >> cultural differences that may cause misunderstanding; Secondly the >> community is very insular and unwelcoming to new comers. > > Sadly, you are at least partially correct. Thick skin should be listed > as a requirement to participate with Gentoo. A while back, we we were > promised an email channel for gentoo-proxy folks that did not get on > well with IRC. It never materialized, so I too cut my losses with irc > as a blocker to becoming a gentoo dev. Also, I've has several folks > promise to work with individually to obtain proxy status, but they all > just disappear. No doubt, back_channel chatter from some jaded devs > greased that relationship. >
The mailing list for proxy-maint was created 5 months ago [0], can be reached by emailing gentoo-proxy-ma...@lists.gentoo.org after subscribing, and the archive is located at [1]. Regarding your comment on working with individual developers, I have not seen anything related to that in the project alias. I would be more than happy to personally help you out with proxy-maintainership. Thanks, -- gokturk [0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581370 [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-proxy-maint/
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