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Well, first let me say that Gentoo is the first Linux distribution I |
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really like. It's not yet perfect but it's getting there. |
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It's also the first distribution I would like to get involved more. |
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I have submitted some ebuilds and most of the ended up in portage quite |
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quickly. Some have been reworked a little bit, which I appreciate a |
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lot, because you see how to make it better. About some (very few) I |
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never heard back (e.g. Darwin Streaming Server). I don't know why, but |
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maybe nobody cared about the packages. |
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I also submitted bug reports and got lots of feedback. So I am very |
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happy about this, even if so far none of my suggestions made it into |
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the system, which is ok, because I feel that the people are really busy |
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with other things and for me it's easy to setup the system the way I |
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like it. |
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On Montag, August 26, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>> And they have to go through a specific set of privileged people. |
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> True, although to the best of my knowledge all distributions have |
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> a similar system. I don't think it will ever make sense to |
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> provide CVS write access to all users; it's simply too easy to |
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> mess things up. Goodness knows that our developers regularly |
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> manage to render Gentoo uninstallable, and they're trying very |
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> hard not to do that. Our system isn't perfect, but I'm not sure |
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> what would be better. |
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One cool think, I would really like to see is a public read/write |
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third-party portage tree (simillar the way PORTDIR_OVERLAY works now |
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locally). |
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This would not be checked by default, but one could enable it. Once |
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ebuilds stabilize they could be moved from there into the main portage |
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tree. |
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This would take the burden from the core team to do QA and rework |
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submitted ebuilds. And people submitting ebuilds would get much more |
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feedback. And the maintainer would be the person, who submitted the |
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ebuild not somebody from the core team ;-) |
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I guess we could do that right now by setting up a sf project and hack |
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the portage tools. (or simply use PORTDIR_OVERLAY for this purpose). |
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>> Q: Can I help, can I help |
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>> A: Sure, you can take out the trash and scrub the toilets. |
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> Well, right now that's pretty much what the developers are doing, |
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> too. Our biggest need for help right now is good bug reports and |
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> help with existing bugs. The only major "development" that is |
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> ocurring right now is portage and some people starting to work on |
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> a sensible installer. Everything else is really bug fixing of |
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> one sort or another. |
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Please, no installer ;-) The way of installing gentoo is so simple and |
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straight forward, I could not imagine an easier install. |
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Dominik |
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