Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 04:09 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Two and potentially far worse, you have the demotivation problem.  Picking
> on a rather active dev as a prime example, Flameeyes' Gentoo/alt-freebsd
> is certainly a minority arch, one that he spends a decent amount of time
> on that could arguably be spent on more mainline projects.  Yet he remains
> very active in other areas as well, and simply telling him to packup his
> Gentoo/fbsd project as it's not wanted would be incredibly demotivating,
> and could eventually cause us to lose him and all the stuff he does for
> the /rest/ of the tree (a quite a lot, from where I sit as a user, and
> I'm very likely missing the largest share of it).  That's not even
> counting how his work on Gentoo/FBSD has improved the quality of the tree
> for everyone, including those like me who have no direct interest in FBSD
> at all.  Flameeyes isn't the only one.  If you shut down all the minority
> archs and projects, you demotivate some of our best and brightest, and
> will very likely eventually lose them.

$ cat commits.txt 
<kloeri> top 10 is: agriffis, vapier, flameeyes, eradicator, mcummings,
mrbones, gustavoz, corsair, kloeri and wolf31o2 (in that order)

Let's see...

Aron works on alpha and ia64.
Mike works on arm, hppa, s390, sh.
Diego works on x86-fbsd.
Gustavo works on sparc.
Bryan works on alpha.
I work on alpha.

All of these are architectures/alt project that people are talking about
dropping, yet the most productive people for Gentoo also happen to work
on these and still manage to improve the "core" of Gentoo daily.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation