Doug Goldstein wrote: > All, > > The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for > weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the > senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54, > GLEP55, and EAPI-3 without any real progress or sense coming of them. > It's taken me a little bit to step up and put a stop to it but I fully > intend on putting a stop to it. The point of the council meetings is > to bring up a topic and decide on its merits whether it should be > brought into the Gentoo Project or not. I quote from the first line of > the Gentoo Council website: I would strongly advice that EAPI-3 and GLEP's 54/55 be dropped at least for the time being (at a minimum 90 days). The argument has left any trappings of merit or rational behind, and has replaced them with religion. As this is now a dogmatic issue a resolution cannot be reached at this time. > > We have all collectively failed the Gentoo Project since we have not > been doing this for the past several weeks.
Vigorous debate fails no one. Religious zealotry however fails us all. In recognizing that this is what's happening iwth EAPI-3, and GLEP's 54/55 is the first step towards moving on to a new and fair debate on these issues down the road. Andrew
