Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:28:42
Message-Id: CACfyCdX64AUEBF5dP-UmvqWGPuCiaEH=ONN_GNh4qcWOt=PCGQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? by Ashley Dixon
1 There is the ongoing drama about go in the Gentoo-dev ML for example.
2
3 Il Mar 21 Apr 2020, 19:12 Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> ha scritto:
4
5 > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:58:03PM +0300, Consus wrote:
6 > > In all honesty, is Gentoo dead? Gentoo-Dev is filled with passive
7 > > aggression (though being developers-only mailing list), Github bot warns
8 > > you that contributing new packages to the main repo is low priority and
9 > > probably no one will help you, and even distribution kernel is not an
10 > > official thing, but a desperate attempt of someone to fix things.
11 >
12 > Considering there have been almost 6000 commits to the repository in the
13 > last 21
14 > days, I would question that claim.
15 >
16 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/threads/2020-04/
17 >
18 > gentoo-dev isn't really filled with any sort aggression. There is
19 > healthy
20 > debate, especially considering the recent switch to Python 3.7 and
21 > masking of
22 > most 3.6-only packages, but that rigorous scrutiny is a requirement for
23 > such a
24 > strong distro.
25 >
26 > There have, of course, been exceptions, such as when bman went
27 > on an
28 > "unsanctioned Python crusade" (removal of all Python 2 packages;
29 > not the
30 > greatest of ideas), however in general, the Gentoo community is one of
31 > the most
32 > alive and healthy I've seen in any Linux distribution.
33 >
34 >
35 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6e8d816eb0125d6581be70f575272653
36 >
37 > --
38 >
39 > Ashley Dixon
40 > suugaku.co.uk
41 >
42 > 2A9A 4117
43 > DA96 D18A
44 > 8A7B B0D2
45 > A30E BF25
46 > F290 A8AA
47 >
48 >