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Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Patrick Lauer: |
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> > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. |
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> > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were |
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> > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. |
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> So what are _you_ doing to make it better? |
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I started to maintain those "unmaintained" packages which are important |
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to me myself and ended up in the net-mail/netmon herds for example. |
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Postfix, Cyrus-Imap, Bind, Nagios and several others are packages i put |
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my hands on - just because noone else did and those were and still are |
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essential to me. |
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> > - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental |
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> > overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the |
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> > hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist. |
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> > Yeah, we do have people working on hardened stuff, but if people just |
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> > take what's happening in the portage tree they might think that the |
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> > hardened stuff they're relying on for their business isn't supported any |
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> > longer. |
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> With Zorry we just got a new recruit for working on hardened things, |
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> especially toolchain. It's not as dead as you make it sound ... |
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Good to see there's something happening in hardened - but still, the |
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user outside of Gentoo still only is seeing: "Oh, no hardened-sources |
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update for nearly a year." |
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> > - Understaffed herds: For example net-mail, netmon and others - were |
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> > missing lots of developers and their support in lots of areas. Sadly |
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> > those areas are mostly those ones, one might need packages for their |
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> > business servers from. |
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> And still, when someone tries to fix things in such an understaffed herd |
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> people go all territorial and are like "omg u touched my package". |
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> Right now I'm quite confused what our project strategy seems to be, as |
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> far as I can tell there's one group aiming for an aesthetical optimum |
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> and the other group just wants to get things fixed. And they are not |
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> cooperating well ... |
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I for one can't say I had any territorial problems when touching |
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packages belonging to other devs or herds - it's just a problem if you |
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screw up. |
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- Tobias |
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Praxisbuch Nagios |
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http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pbnagiosger/ |
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https://www.xing.com/profile/Tobias_Scherbaum |
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