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Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> said: |
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> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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> > I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's |
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> > mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very |
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> > successful as an Enterprise distribution, and I don't think that it can |
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> > every be very successful as a binary distribution, either. The things |
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> > that make us, that is Gentoo, unique, and the best in our area, by |
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> > definition are the /same/ sort of things that make a relatively poor |
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> > enterprise or binary distribution. |
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> I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a |
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> meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution |
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> easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. |
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> I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause |
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> friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving |
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> certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to |
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> have a single direction. |
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+1 |
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Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some sort of |
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"global vision" we are only going to restrict this. |
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> The biggest concern that I see here is a lack of communications, really. |
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> We don't need direction. We just need some way for people to know who's |
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> going where. I think Koon's "MetaBug" project would be an excellent |
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> idea to assist in this. We need a body with some teeth to get things |
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> done in a timely manner. We also need enforcement of some sort to |
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> ensure projects are active and reporting information on their status. |
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Sounds good as well. I'd like to see all of the projects/teams saying what |
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their goals are, or what they have done to move towards their goals. |
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Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ |
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http://www.halcy0n.com |
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