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Hell no, but ... |
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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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For example: |
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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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- Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, |
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but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but |
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also to our docs-team) for years. People are constantly asking for a |
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documentation wiki, but ... |
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- Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure |
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there are more people, but ....) ... things are happening slowly (no |
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offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their |
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spare time to infra work!), take overlays.g.o migration, Bugzie-3 |
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migration and so on as an example. |
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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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- Website redesign - we had a contest some years ago, got a winner, |
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someone started to adapt the design and somewhat that project fall |
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asleep. |
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- Speaking of our website, PR ... guess there's nothing more to add. |
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So - what to do now? To be honest - I have no real clue. But a first |
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step might be to collect your opinions on where we do lack manpower and |
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ideas on how to solve this problems. A Wiki might be fitting well for |
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that task *cough*. A next step might be to discuss every identified |
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problem and discuss our options and ideas how to improve the situation. |
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- Tobias |
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-- |
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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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