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Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> There have been a number of developers leaving Gentoo in the past 6 |
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> months as well as a number of news stories on DistroWatch, Slashdot, |
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> LWN, and others about Gentoo's internal problems. No one seems to have |
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> pin pointed the problem, but it seems glaringly obvious to me. We |
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> simply don't have enough developers to support the many projects that |
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> we have. Here are my ideas for fixing this problem: |
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> - Cut the number of packages in half (put the removed ebuilds in |
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> community run overlays) |
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No, thank you. We are already decimating packages in certain areas but |
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isn't a good solution. |
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> |
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> - Formal approval process (or at least strict criteria) for adding |
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> new packages |
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let the herds decide... |
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> - Make every dev a member of at least 1 arch team |
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Ok |
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> |
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> - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting |
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NO! I want to know people I'm working with. Double the people doing |
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recruiting and evaluation! (I have at least one guy in wait phase) |
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> - No competing projects |
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No projects that don't coordinate between them. |
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> - New projects must have 5 devs, a formal plan, and be approved by the |
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> council |
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some projects starts by one and then grow... |
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> - Devs can only belong to 5 projects at most |
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No. |
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> - Drop all arches and Gentoo/Alt projects except Linux on amd64, |
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> ppc32/64, sparc, and x86 |
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No. |
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> - Reduce the number of projects by eliminating the dead, weak, |
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> understaffed, and unnecessary projects |
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too much subjective so, No. |
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> - Project status reports once a month for every project |
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bureocracy.... |
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In short, interesting ideas, I don't like more than half of them. |
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what about: |
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let treecleaners do their job, |
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recruiters get more people, |
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put the devmanual where it belongs, |
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have better coordination between projects to the point stepping on |
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others feet is quite hard and not dead easy as today? |
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those point and less noise on gentoo-dev. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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