Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal

[Ferris McCormick]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:26 +0530, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:32 +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote:
> > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship,
> > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun
> > working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big reformation
>
> A well considered and thoughtful message. Reinvigorating communities is
> hard, and I hope the rest of the Gentoo developer community will find
> inspiration from the gentle encouragement to be positive, even if it
> turns out the specific ideas aren't the direction you want to go.
>
> For all that the original poster got hammered about the stage4 thing, as
> a long time Gentoo advocate I must admit that the constant stream of
> negativity connected with so many developers getting upset and leaving
> in a relatively short period of time is vaguely unsettling. It's good to
> see other developers noting that they are happy - it balances things.
>

OK, I'm a happy developer. 

> One of the hallmarks of Gentoo has been whole tree co-ordination and the
> fact that developers are able to cover for each other is really rather
> cool. Regardless of any structural changes you might make, this
> characteristic co-ordination and co-operation is what has made Gentoo an
> impressive distribution and so I hope you manage to maintain this spirit
> in the years to come.
>
> AfC
> Bangalore
>

Thanks for the kind words; positive posts are always welcome. :) I
believe it is very much our intent to "maintain this spirit [of
co-operation]".

Regards,
-- 
Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)