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On 14/08/2011 12:35 μμ, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Markos Chandras |
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> <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Some time ago, few people proposed to have Council appointed |
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>> leaders for QA and DevRel. I like the idea because this way the |
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>> Council can ensure that the team is active or either force some |
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>> activity in case the current leader slacks big time. |
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Well, to be honest, I have no clear understanding of what you guys think |
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about this problem. From what I gathered, it seems to me that we need to |
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establish a process to identify dead/slacking projects and then have the |
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appropriate mechanism within the council to deal with it. |
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Having all the project sending a "ping" e-mail to council is not a |
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solution. Having a bunch of people monitoring all the projects is not |
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good either. |
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What I propose, is to compile a list with projects that are known to be |
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dead, and give them a final warning or verify their "dead" status. After |
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that, their broken package shall be removed, and the rest of them can |
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remain as maintainer-needed@. 2-3 developers can take care of the |
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removals. It is not a big deal. |
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Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 listed |
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developers ( I would be glad if 100 of us were really active ) to |
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maintain thousands of ebuilds. I have already said that many many times |
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and I will say it again. We need to stop pretending that everything is |
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fine. We need to support only the packages that we can *really* support |
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and lets hope that more people will join in when they see their packages |
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going away. |
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I think this is quite honest not just to our selves but to our users as |
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well. If we keep stalling, then heavy committers will probably get |
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demotivated ( by trying to keep everything working ) and Gentoo will |
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slowly die or portage will become unmanageable. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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