Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from > having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of > those meetings but even the topic. Perhaps a requirement that any > Council meeting logs be made public would be useful, with a waiver > that the Council can have a secret meeting if it officially announces > that it is doing so? > This is getting silly; a secret meeting which is officially announced?
You cannot stop people from talking amongst themselves. It doesn't work and it's counter-productive. Consulting a PR in recent times was a smart move, and not one that can be done in the public glare, akin to a discussion with an attorney. I for one am glad the Council did it, and gladder still that it was in confidence. I have no interest in knowing all the ins and outs, so long as there are people there who _will_ sort out issues which have to be dealt with. In my estimation, there are a good set of dedicated individuals who truly care about gentoo. I might not agree with everything they do or say; so what? They provide the best distro out there, and contrary to your allegations, for a user it's better and more stable than ever. Comparing binary package managers to a source-based one is facile imo. RH or Ubuntu can do what they want: the competition for gentoo is basically sourcemage. There are loads of gentoo users who have never had to reinstall in several years of use. That simply doesn't happen with the `competition' which you cite. It seems like gentoo is going from a cottage-industry to a medium-size organisation. People can work for the same organisation, sharing the same general ideals, but with completely different approaches; they just work on different teams. imo that's a good thing, so long as all acknowledge that there is a _collective_ goal, which no individual could achieve, and agreed standards of behaviour are upheld. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
