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Ok, so we had a rather interesting debate (which quickly went out of control) |
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today on the whole Gentoo seed project. One of the recommendations that came |
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through the flames was a liaison to help communicate between the two parties, |
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the people running the seed project and release engineering. The idea I had |
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for being a liaison was as follows: |
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1) Weekly summary of the project provided about Saturday my time, as that's |
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about the only guaranteed free time I can provide |
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2) Working with both sides to produce a logical GLEP. People are wondering |
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whether or not we need one, let's make everyone happy and provide one on the |
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spot for people to have. |
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3) Mirror storage seemed to be an issue. There are plenty of offerings from |
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the adopt-a-dev project for bandwidth and server space that I think could be |
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utilized to suit this and let release engineering utilize the official space |
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for their releases. |
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4) Providing release engineering with extra help through bug wrangling and |
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usage of some of my hardware for future release testing. This would also |
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involve familiarizing myself with the catalyst system, the release |
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engineering project in general, and a general idea of related projects around |
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it. |
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Now, the reality is I'm pretty much head diving into a brick wall so to speak. |
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I know there are already people strongly opposed (If we couldn't tell be the |
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rather long thread currently in progress), and at this point, I'm somewhat |
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waiting things out, as people are just plain pissed off right now, and trying |
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to establish things isn't going to happen overnight. |
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I'm hoping this will work out for the best. I've seen Gentoo go through a |
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lot, but this particular case has me scared of the future of Gentoo. If this |
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escalates anymore, I fear we'll have more things to worry about than this |
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particular project. |
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Chris White |
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Gentoo Developer |