Post details: Will the Love-Sources tradition die?

17 March, 2005

Permalink 21:15 UTC, by Stefan Schweizer Email , 135 words, 9399 views   English (US)
Categories: Gentoo

Will the Love-Sources tradition die?

For a long time now we were able to watch the flamewars between Lovechild and ciaranm. Recently there has been a change, Lovechild got banned in the Gentoo forums by klieber in December 2004 for that post.

Now ian has moved the non-official kernel patchset-threads to "Off the Wall", this move may be provoked by ciaranms permanent "convincing". Ian said to me that he is "at this time [I'm] supporting developers who were calling for help".
Most of the "non-official" users understand why this step was made, but they are not happy with it as "Off the Wall" is usually used for non-gentoo topics.
There is currently a proposal by the users to open up a new forum for gentoo-related but not official projects.
I hope we can get the current situation improved by this move.

Comments:

Comment from: Lovechild [Visitor]
I agree that the unsupported software forum is a good idea, and believe it or not, I dislike the Reiser4 patch nearly as much as Ciaran does - just ask in the #love-sources channel, but I can't get it removed since it's not my decision alone. We have a staff board that votes on these things, and currently people who don't have to actively maintain that patch are voting for it to stay - despite several tests exposing serious interactivity problems, and it generally being a pain in the ass feature.

I don't personally promote the patch, again ask the channel for verification, and it made me very unpopular with the long time users - I don't however disagree with peoples right to test such features - I just won't have anything to do with it at all supportwise, and I don't think it's fair to expect me, or the Gentoo developers to provide support for this feature (note ever since the love-sources team was asked to include a disclaimer, we have - we don't intend to burden the Gentoo team in anyway - but we can't account for people's stupidity and idiotic behavior).

-Lovechild
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