Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Anders Hellgren wrote:
 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote:
 
 On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even
  discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific
  channel. Could someone clear me up on this?

  Thanks,
  Donnie

 Sorry, but I must second this, especially as discussions have also
 been continuing that (unlike Mike's discussion) actually included
 council members.

 I'm all for folks trying to help resolve the Sunrise issues, but I
 feel that it's not devrel's place to be deciding this particular
 policy issue, especially when the issue has already been referred to
 the council.

 Best regards,
 Stu

 FWIW, there was almost an hour's worth of discussion before the start of
 the log KingTaco posted. As a bystander, my guess is that the discussion
 took place in the devrel channel because a complaint about the use of
 the bugzilla whiteboard by the sunrise folks was brought up in that
 channel. The compromise was made to defuse further escalation to a
 formal complaint to devrel.
 
 /Anders
 -- Anders Hellgren (kallamej)
 Gentoo Forums Administrator

OK, so - java folks, please, take your java migration overlay bugs
somewhere else from bugzilla. You know very well I had no problem w/
assigning them, I just requested them to be clearly marked as such
(which the users have been doing, thank you for that). Since some
developers consider such use of bugzilla as misuse of Gentoo
infrastructure and have gone so far that they involved devrel in this
discussion, I'm not going to assign those bugs any more.

Your 'thank you' goes especially to brix, your complaints go to devrel
as a body that proclaimed themselves empowered to decide on acceptable
bugzilla usage. There's no technical difference between using bugzilla
for unofficial java migration overlay hosted on gentooexperimental.org
and using it for unofficial overlay hosted on gentoo-sunrise.org (and
even usage of keywords and status whiteboard for unofficial overlays
counts as a misuse of bugzilla here). Devrel's current policy clearly is
that bugzilla may only be used for official overlays hosted on
overlays.gentoo.org,


Sorry for the inconvenience, not my fault.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Joshua Nichols
Jakub Moc wrote:
 Anders Hellgren wrote:
 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Stuart Herbert wrote:

 On 6/23/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm amazingly confused about why technical policy decisions (and even
  discussions about them) are being made by devrel in a devrel-specific
  channel. Could someone clear me up on this?

  Thanks,
  Donnie
 Sorry, but I must second this, especially as discussions have also
 been continuing that (unlike Mike's discussion) actually included
 council members.

 I'm all for folks trying to help resolve the Sunrise issues, but I
 feel that it's not devrel's place to be deciding this particular
 policy issue, especially when the issue has already been referred to
 the council.

 Best regards,
 Stu

 FWIW, there was almost an hour's worth of discussion before the start of
 the log KingTaco posted. As a bystander, my guess is that the discussion
 took place in the devrel channel because a complaint about the use of
 the bugzilla whiteboard by the sunrise folks was brought up in that
 channel. The compromise was made to defuse further escalation to a
 formal complaint to devrel.

 /Anders
 -- Anders Hellgren (kallamej)
 Gentoo Forums Administrator
 
 OK, so - java folks, please, take your java migration overlay bugs
 somewhere else from bugzilla. You know very well I had no problem w/
 assigning them, I just requested them to be clearly marked as such
 (which the users have been doing, thank you for that). Since some
 developers consider such use of bugzilla as misuse of Gentoo
 infrastructure and have gone so far that they involved devrel in this
 discussion, I'm not going to assign those bugs any more.
 
 Your 'thank you' goes especially to brix, your complaints go to devrel
 as a body that proclaimed themselves empowered to decide on acceptable
 bugzilla usage. There's no technical difference between using bugzilla
 for unofficial java migration overlay hosted on gentooexperimental.org
 and using it for unofficial overlay hosted on gentoo-sunrise.org (and
 even usage of keywords and status whiteboard for unofficial overlays
 counts as a misuse of bugzilla here). Devrel's current policy clearly is
 that bugzilla may only be used for official overlays hosted on
 overlays.gentoo.org,
 
 
 Sorry for the inconvenience, not my fault.
 

Umm maybe it's just to early in the morning, but I don't see
anything in the logs regarding using bugzilla for overlays not on
overlays.gentoo.org. I only see references to sunrise specifically, not
a blanket statement for all non-overlays.gentoo.org overlays

Or was this part of a discussion / decision that wasn't on this mailing
list...?

Josh
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical
decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but
aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds?

What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you can't have
your toy going on around here?  Jakub, if you will disrupt others
because you can't have your way, then please reconsider exactly what
your role is in this project, and maybe even how you might better serve
some other project.

This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.

Seemant


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Jakub Moc
Seemant Kulleen wrote:
 First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical
 decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but
 aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds?

Not sure either, maybe brix will be able to answer your question better.


 What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you can't have
 your toy going on around here?  Jakub, if you will disrupt others
 because you can't have your way, then please reconsider exactly what
 your role is in this project, and maybe even how you might better serve
 some other project.

Uhm, what I am saying here is that we can either have a *general* policy
on acceptable bugzilla usage, or no policy at all. Inventing ad-hoc
policies for a single project just because a couple of folks dislike
that project does not do any good and does not make any sense either.

The whole concept of status whiteboard and keywords usage constituting a
misuse of Gentoo infrastructure is pretty new to me. That stuff is there
 to make searching for bugs and their grouping easier, and as such has
been used. Then someone comes to #-devrel with the above complaint, and
devrel (or some its member) within an hour decides that all such
keywords and status whiteboard records need to be nuked from bugzilla?

What are the grounds for such decision, and why it's OK for one
unofficial project to use bugzilla for their bugs, and why it's so
horribly wrong for another unofficial project to even pollute those
fields, without actually creating new bugs? That's what this thread is
about, and that's why I have brought this up. Not to harm java migration
and java folks. As I have stated already, I have no problem with their
bugs, I've even talked to nichoj some weeks ago to arrange it in the
best possible way.


 This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
 People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.
 
 Seemant

There would not be any issue if devrel didn't act the way they did, the
matter has not been urgent at all.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Gaffney

Seemant Kulleen wrote:

This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.


+1 (with gusto!)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:43:23AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
 First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical
 decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but
 aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds?
 
 What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you can't have
 your toy going on around here?  Jakub, if you will disrupt others
 because you can't have your way, then please reconsider exactly what
 your role is in this project, and maybe even how you might better serve
 some other project.

You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he
*doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another?

 This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
 People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.

Don't you think you yourself are overreacting a bit in your message?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner

Seemant Kulleen wrote:

First of all, I'm not sure why devrel was involved in a technical
decision without actually having all the interested parties there, but
aside from that, when Gentoo developers become a bunch of 5 year olds?

What is this absolute nonsense of you don't like my toy, you can't have
your toy going on around here?  Jakub, if you will disrupt others
because you can't have your way, then please reconsider exactly what
your role is in this project, and maybe even how you might better serve
some other project.



I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds 
(not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying 
that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it 
is :)  I mean if he was serious, he would have addressed the PHP 
overlay, the webapps overlay...etc...



This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.

Seemant


Look, I was on IRC yesterday, the whole thing was a mess.  For once I'm 
not going to step on devrels balls for this one.  Someone had to do 
something.  For once I'm tired of *someone acting* and then getting 
nailed for it because its not their place.  Am I thrilled with the 
outcome?  No not really.  Apparently neither is Jakub.  Thats all fine. 
 Can always overturn it later.  Or we can discuss it endlessly here 
with no outcome, or we can make the council decide on what the proper 
use of bugzilla is.  Or we can all realize that we can't get our way all 
the time and compromise with other projects*.


* Including projects currently suspended.

-Alec
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread George Shapovalov
This was originally supposed to go into another thread, but hey - this is a 
perfect illustration of what I am going to talk about (to unconfuse Seemant 
right away - this is not related to your posting but rather to the situation 
that lead to it). I really was considering sending this as a theoretical 
musings email (pointed at spyderous primarily? he seems to enjoy my rare 
postings like these :)), but well, looks like I'll have to be somewhat 
serious for a change.

Executive summary:
There is a (by now) well established knowledge on group dynamics depending on 
its size, involving parameters such as Dubnar's number for example. Two 
references I spotted just recently (well, Ok, they are from 2004 actually :)) 
can be found below:
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/03/the_dunbar_numb.html
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/03/what_is_the_opt.html

(and here is a more scientific writing, a base article for which the above 
two are kind of illustratory/anecdotal evidence types:
http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs0565-00/bbs.dunbar.html
)

The first two are kind of extreme in their coverage - one talks about MMORG 
guilds and another about terrorist cells, but hey, who said we are that 
different ;)? Both talk about social structure/critical sizes of the groups 
at small and medium scale. Social networks brought together towards 
implementing some common goal, so I say observations similar to those should 
apply to us too. 

It looks like we are now at that tipping point. 
herdstat tells me we are some 233 developers atm, which sounds damn close to 
that magical number of 150 active group participants (in our case that 
would correspond to reasonably active regular devs, i.e. the ones who do 
general maintaince, participate in discussions (by at least trying to read 
them) and at least sometimes emerge from that one small project they are 
in..). 

The suggestion maybe this whole screaming is a something inherent to the 
group size has been voiced recently a few times. So yes, to me this indeed 
seems very likely to be the case. Ironically, the later push to cleanse 
inactive devs, coupled with successfull recruitment may have been the thing 
that pushed us over (remember, dead souls don't count)..

So, what is the pont I am trying to make? Well, basically I just want to say 
that the problem is real and won't go away by periodically screaming be nice 
to each other, since it seems to be inherent to a group size. We cannot just 
reduce our numbers - it does not work this way. If anything, we need *more* 
people, not less :). However at this point we cannot grow either. The main 
idea of the original (3rd cited) paper is that this is a real limit, imposed 
by the amount of housekeeping interactions that are needed to sustain a 
group of that size, it is the way we are as species. As you push more 
people in, more start leaving  and for a group to grow past that limit it has 
to restructure, assume a more diffuse interaction/more role division perhaps? 
(Similarly, just putting some *one* at the top won't work either without 
restructuring the group. In fact it seems to work worse for the groups that 
are over the small group limit). So, yes, we have to adress it, and lets 
try to do it right. However lets not take this lightly, I sense a lot of 
fights involved :), but I am optimistic of eventual outcome..
(But don't ask me for a grand plan - I don't have one, I hope evolution forces 
will help us sort things out :)).

George 

PS.
A short short summary of critical group sizes. I really need to refresh my 
memory on that stuff though..

Small groups - 5 to 9, optimal - 7,8 People concentrate on one common 
problem and interact very closely.

Medium groups - 25 to 150, optimal 80-90 (but when there is a clear bias to 
add people (shiny idea/something valuable/commonly recognized as necessary) 
it is stable at a maximum of ~150). Often involves tight small subgroups, 
normally specialized, general interaction is loose but still on a personal 
level (even if not very intensive)

Large groups - I only remember the upper limit of ~2000 for those and I am 
rusty on what is the failing factor. Seems like a Debian situation to me 
(with most everybody else, us included, stuck at a medium group level).


Commertial entities often overcome these issues of scale by imposing 
a chain-of-command structure, effectively splitting into smaller subgroups 
and having a hierarchial structure made of those. However this arrangement is 
explicitly deemed unsuitable by many developers (according to voiced opinions 
in the past).
I suppose we can think about some loose arrangement of small and medium 
groups, may be even some minor modifications to our project structure can 
help (make Top level projects = medium group, subproject = small group). This 
one is apparent of course, but, as usual, the devil is in the details (people 
doing work in different areas and, most importantly, 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because
| he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over
| another?

One unofficial project that has screwed up so badly that the council
has had to step in and say no to it, as opposed to an unofficial
project that has not attracted complaints and that is being worked into
the tree?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Joshua Nichols wrote:
 Umm maybe it's just to early in the morning, but I don't see
 anything in the logs regarding using bugzilla for overlays not on
 overlays.gentoo.org. I only see references to sunrise specifically, not
 a blanket statement for all non-overlays.gentoo.org overlays
 
 Or was this part of a discussion / decision that wasn't on this mailing
 list...?


Mike Doty wrote:
 Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted
 overlays, this will be the defining method of dealing with them.

Thanks,
Donnie



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alec Warner wrote:
 I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds
 (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying
 that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it
 is :)  I mean if he was serious, he would have addressed the PHP
 overlay, the webapps overlay...etc...

No, because those are now hosted by Gentoo.

 Look, I was on IRC yesterday, the whole thing was a mess.  For once I'm
 not going to step on devrels balls for this one.  Someone had to do
 something.  For once I'm tired of *someone acting* and then getting
 nailed for it because its not their place.  Am I thrilled with the
 outcome?  No not really.  Apparently neither is Jakub.  Thats all fine.
  Can always overturn it later.  Or we can discuss it endlessly here with
 no outcome, or we can make the council decide on what the proper use of
 bugzilla is.  Or we can all realize that we can't get our way all the
 time and compromise with other projects*.

Yes, but as Seemant said, all those affected in the decision should be
involved (or at least represented) in the compromise.

Thanks,
Donnie



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
 On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:09:24 +0200 Harald van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 | You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because
 | he *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over
 | another?
 
 One unofficial project that has screwed up so badly that the council
 has had to step in and say no to it,

It's entirely possible that I missed some important message, but as far
as I know, council hasn't said either yes or no to it, and the overlay
as hosted on o.g.o is suspended only until a council decision is made.

 as opposed to an unofficial
 project that has not attracted complaints and that is being worked into
 the tree?

Quoting the original message:
Until the council makes a firm decision about non-gentoo hosted
 overlays, this will be the defining method of dealing with them.

Please explain to me how any non-gentoo hosted overlay can possibly be
an exception to this.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
 You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he
 *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another?

The jave unofficial overlay is well on its way to becoming an official
and officially hosted overlay.

  This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
  People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.
 
 Don't you think you yourself are overreacting a bit in your message?

Not at all.  I've been back on the gentoo-dev list for three weeks, and
the actual dev part of it has been pretty much missing.  This list
would be more ideal as gentoo-rant,
gentoo-torture-every-reader-with-endless-threads,
gentoo-lets-not-get-along, gentoo-babies, gentoo-childishness, we can
come with a few more.

My personal view is apparently starting to be more public here, so I'll
be plain: I think developers needs to all seriously reconsider what they
are doing with Gentoo and why. I'm not advocating anything other than a
bit of introspection on why people do this to begin with.

In the past few weeks, I've seen devs get at each others' throats; and
worse still at users' throats.  And really, it's a little too much
already.

Thanks,

Seemant



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Also, just so I'm clear on my stance on this:

I don't care one whit about whether those keywords are used in bugzilla
or not.  Keywords are a way to help bugzilla users use bugzilla.  As for
perceptions about it -- as long sunrise is clear on their pages that
they are absolutely not official as of yet, I don't think we run into
any issues, officially.  There may be users who do get that perception.
On the other hand, you will have people who walk by a sign that says
sale today and ask when exactly the sale is.  We can't, and should
not, hold everyone's hand.

Thanks,

Seemant

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
 On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
  You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he
  *doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another?
 
 The jave unofficial overlay is well on its way to becoming an official
 and officially hosted overlay.

And once it is, it can be given special treatment.

   This childishness from *all* sides is getting really old, really fast.
   People need to grow the hell up, and quit with the melodrama.
  
  Don't you think you yourself are overreacting a bit in your message?
 
 Not at all.  I've been back on the gentoo-dev list for three weeks, and
 the actual dev part of it has been pretty much missing.  This list
 would be more ideal as gentoo-rant,
 gentoo-torture-every-reader-with-endless-threads,
 gentoo-lets-not-get-along, gentoo-babies, gentoo-childishness, we can
 come with a few more.

Maybe discussions have been focused on policy more than development
itself, but for the most part (yes, there have been exceptions), they
have still been focused on Gentoo. You seem to be making it personal,
which is over the line for me.

 My personal view is apparently starting to be more public here, so I'll
 be plain: I think developers needs to all seriously reconsider what they
 are doing with Gentoo and why. I'm not advocating anything other than a
 bit of introspection on why people do this to begin with.

That is a good idea regardless.

 In the past few weeks, I've seen devs get at each others' throats; and
 worse still at users' throats.  And really, it's a little too much
 already.

Your frustration is understandable, but I think you took it out on the
wrong message, and very possibly the wrong person.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Mike Doty
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
 Alec Warner wrote:
 I believe that jakub finds this devrel decision a step out of bounds
 (not sure if anyone else detected the that in his statement) and saying
 that to the java folks is moreso a way of pointing out just how silly it
 is :)  I mean if he was serious, he would have addressed the PHP
 overlay, the webapps overlay...etc...
 
 No, because those are now hosted by Gentoo.
 
 Look, I was on IRC yesterday, the whole thing was a mess.  For once I'm
 not going to step on devrels balls for this one.  Someone had to do
 something.  For once I'm tired of *someone acting* and then getting
 nailed for it because its not their place.  Am I thrilled with the
 outcome?  No not really.  Apparently neither is Jakub.  Thats all fine.
  Can always overturn it later.  Or we can discuss it endlessly here with
 no outcome, or we can make the council decide on what the proper use of
 bugzilla is.  Or we can all realize that we can't get our way all the
 time and compromise with other projects*.
 
 Yes, but as Seemant said, all those affected in the decision should be
 involved (or at least represented) in the compromise.
 
 Thanks,
 Donnie
 
You're right, not everyone was represented.  It was a response to the
problem at hand.

If the other overlay people feel that they need to be represented, I
will hold a 2nd meeting to address their specific issues.  Assuming that
a significant amount of overlay managers want, I will hold this
meeting at Sunday 1800 UTC in #gentoo-devrel on freenode.  Please post
your specific problems on this (sub) thread by Saturday 1800 UTC so I at
least have 24 hours to understand and ask questions before the meeting.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Alec Warner


Executive summary:
There is a (by now) well established knowledge on group dynamics depending on 
its size, involving parameters such as Dubnar's number for example. Two 
references I spotted just recently (well, Ok, they are from 2004 actually :)) 
can be found below:

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/03/the_dunbar_numb.html
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/03/what_is_the_opt.html

(and here is a more scientific writing, a base article for which the above 
two are kind of illustratory/anecdotal evidence types:

http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs0565-00/bbs.dunbar.html


All three were very informative, were we to actaully task a commitee (of 
 seven people!) to take a look at how we interact, it would be an 
interesting job I think; perhaps leading to some ideas on how to 
reorganize ourselves.


-Alec
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage for overlays' projects [was: sunrise, a temporary compromise]

2006-06-23 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:33:21PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
 On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:07 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
  On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
   On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 15:09 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
You're suggesting jakub maybe shouldn't even be a Gentoo dev because he
*doesn't* give one unofficial overlay special treatment over another?
   
   The jave unofficial overlay is well on its way to becoming an official
   and officially hosted overlay.
  
  And once it is, it can be given special treatment.
 
 We're talking around each other, let's stop.   I'm not advocating that
 the overlay keywords for sunrise cease -- as I stated in another part of
 this thread: I do not care one way or the other.  I don't think it is
 appropriate, however, to make other projects hostage because you don't
 like what's going on with your pet project.

Agreed, but I don't think there's any reading of the original message
that allows continuing use of Gentoo's bugzilla for Java's overlay until
it is hosted by Gentoo, so I don't consider this Jakub's decision.

  Maybe discussions have been focused on policy more than development
  itself, but for the most part (yes, there have been exceptions), they
  have still been focused on Gentoo. You seem to be making it personal,
  which is over the line for me.
 
 I'm pretty sure I have not made it personal.  I'm not addressing any one
 in particular on these, nor do I have anything against any parties (or
 for any parties for that matter).  I'm sorry if you took my words that
 way, that was certainly not the intent from this side.

It was mostly the gentoo-babies reference to this list that I
considered name-calling and a bit too much, even if it wasn't directed
at any single person in particular. If I misunderstood you, sorry.

  Your frustration is understandable, but I think you took it out on the
  wrong message, and very possibly the wrong person.
 
 I know what I did, and they were both the correct target.  We can take
 this off-list and include Jakub himself in it, if you're dying to know.
 I think Jakub himself knows full well *exactly* where I came from and
 why.

If there's something between you and Jakub that I'm not aware of, I'll
stay out of that. It doesn't affect my opinion on this specific topic,
though.
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