Month: October 2006

Diego,

thanks for pointing out that! The state of consideration in the council was not very clear to me. Apparently members were missing and it was no decision. Sorry

Seemant,

I have fixed your point 1 (license) in my copy and I was working with pylon and halcy0n the past few hours to get the devmanual imported. It is now available in gentoo svn – sorry, anonsvn.gentoo.org does not work yet 🙁 one of the long standing items in infras queue. Point two first item fixed.

Point 2 second item – the gentoo branding is actually a bit harder to do. This is a point that is rather hard to deal with and a good excuse for delaying putting it up again.

Actually I did not yet fix the license violation in the Gentoo svn because kloeri and wolf31o2 from Gentoo council want the council to handle that at this point.

I am hoping that they can get it up and working again soon 🙂

Yesterday Ciaran wrote a mail to several people asking for the devmanual to be changed to comply with the license. Every contributor should be listed in the same size and not one person who has done little with extra strength on the front page.

A 2-minute change you think? Not for Gentoo – In Gentoo everything is more complicated. A quick council decision resulted in putting the page out of action hurting the whole community and now it is on the long queue of things for the infrastructure team to do. Some hope that it will be a matter of days to get it back.

Can we avoid such a thing in future? Yes. Developer (especially those with special rights) need to think more of the results of their action and the community. And we need to learn to solve problems and not run away from them.

Until the people with power decide to make the content again available on devmanual.gentoo.org I have put up a recent copy with license issues fixed on http://dev.gentoo.org/~genstef/devmanual