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On 31 December 2012 09:17, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> Happy New Year to all of you! |
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> Looking back at 2012, I wonder what we consider our achievements for |
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> this past year. What is the state of Gentoo? How have we brought it |
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> forward and improved it this past year? |
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> And what do we want to see in the coming year? How can we make Gentoo |
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> more awesome in 2013? |
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> I will add my own thoughts later. I first would like to hear from you. |
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> -- |
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> Cheers, |
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> |
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> Ben | yngwin |
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> Gentoo developer |
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> Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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> |
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For starters, I think the state of Gentoo isn't too bad. Yes, there |
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are a few more maintainer-needed packages than we'd like to see, but |
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MOST packages are well maintained, we're keeping arch pretty stable |
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and up-to-date and working well for most arches and even ~arch isn't |
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too broken. Portage is working better than it ever has and EAPI=5 is |
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in full swing. I wish we could get started on stabilising gcc-4.6.x, |
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but i suppose there are still A BIT too many packages that need to be |
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fixed with it (though nothing really critical now that we've fixed the |
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GRUB bug). |
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The biggest thing that has changed in Gentoo in the past year in my |
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opinion is mindshare. I think we are back in the public's mindshare. |
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Mostly with good advocacy, a bit with good publicity and even a bit |
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with bad publicity (eudev haters, i'm looking at you...but i suppose |
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the old saying "There's no such thing as bad publicity" applies here a |
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bit). It hasn't really resulted in too many new developers or |
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contributors but from what i've seen, it's resulted in A LOT of new |
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users. |
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For 2013, I don't really think much needs to be done. Mostly just keep |
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the status quo. It would be nice to see the git migration happen in |
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2013, i'm sure that will spur many new contributors. I'd like to see |
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preserve-libs (either in its current state or fully driven by |
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subslots) enabled by default in 2013. Also, of course, i'd like to see |
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more developers come on board in 2013. |
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It's really difficult to sum up the past year and the future because, |
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over the year, i've seen so many things in Gentoo that i've said |
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"That's so cool" in regards to, but i wouldn't put it on a list of the |
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biggest improvements of the year. |
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