On December 9, 2016 10:12:54 PM PST, "A. Wilcox" <awil...@adelielinux.org> wrote: >I think James has perhaps spoken ambiguously, or at least I hope that >you have misunderstood his proposal. (If you haven't, then he's >misunderstood mine.) > >The point of making it easier to fork is not only for the benefit of >developers. As James says: > >> And then folks running gentoo-proper now can pick and choose which >> innovations they want to include in the master tree. > >The idea being the people who "run" Gentoo, that being the developers >of Gentoo, can pick what they want from the forks and derivatives, and >include those improvements in the master tree. Then all Gentoo users, >and all derivatives of Gentoo, can benefit from those improvements.
You’re right, I took the word “run” in the sense of “execute” (the OS), not in the sense of “manage” (the organization). If forks are a way to develop work destined for upstream, they’re great. It’s when they become a tool for fragmenting the community (of both users and developers) without any hope of work being recombined that they become a problem. -- Christopher Head
