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Hi, |
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I've enjoyed my time with Gentoo, mostly... But these days I've just got |
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too demotivated to work on it. I might have stayed if Ken69267 posted me |
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some Lifesavers, but he didn't. :( |
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On a more serious note, the problem seems to be the complete lack of |
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management in the required places, Gentoo is fast becoming (or more |
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likely, already is) an anarchic organisation, where it's becoming |
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nigh-on impossible to keep track of things. |
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I see a number of issues with Gentoo these days. The lack of a proper |
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leadership body. Lack of people working together in unison. The tree |
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needs to be sorted out: we have >16000 packages, and 200-250 developers, |
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not all of which are ebuild developers) - We're still using CVS, we do |
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*not* have the manpower to keep all the packages updated properly using |
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a centralised VCS. If these issues were fixed, I don't know/care how |
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they do get fixed, but if they were, I might consider coming back. |
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If you *really* want me to stay/not retire, and attempt to help fix |
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these issues, then I guess I can do so if enough people request that of |
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me. But I will do so purely in a "managerial" position, and will do no |
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ebuild or other such development. |
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I'll still hang around in various channels and so on and so forth. |
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Whatever happens, I do apparently maintain a few misc packages, most of |
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which are low maintenance. Various herds will now need a new lead |
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(apologies guys), so that will have to be arranged as well. You will |
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also need to find another slacker to replace me ;) |
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If there isn't a mass revolt against my retirement, so long, and thanks |
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for all the fish! Otherwise... We'll see. |
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Thanks, |
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welp |
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