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Chris Bainbridge posted <623652d50601060100w2bd03634i@××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:00:59 +0000: |
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> The problems being: |
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> 1) Manpower. There are already 10,000 open bugs in bugzilla (and |
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> growing) without adding more. |
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> 2) Lack of interest. Most developers aren't interested in supporting |
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> "old" packages. |
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> 3) The enterprise. Both of the above problems would be fixed if |
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> enterprises were contributing developers and/or money. However, they |
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> aren't, so why is that? The truth is most enterprises want to go to a |
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> big company to buy their software. They want one homogeneous binary |
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> system, not a flexible way of building packages from source, and they |
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> want someone else to do it and be responsible for it. |
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> The only way I can see to solve these problems is more automation. [] |
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> For QA gentoo really needs a compile farm with automated compile, |
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> install and test (from those ebuilds that support it). Make the system |
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> smarter, instead of throwing more people at the problem. |
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You didn't say it, but it should be self-evident. The automation solution |
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is tied to money, which, ultimately, comes back to #3. |
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I know it's been said before, but really, Gentoo doesn't seem to fit the |
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enterprise mold well enough to get the enterprise money. There are |
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better fitting organizations out there, that require less direct |
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modificatiion to get them into the enterprise mold, so /they/ get the |
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enterprise money. I know some disagree with this and think Gentoo should |
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be specifically targeting the enterprise, but IMO, that's not Gentoo's |
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niche and never will be. |
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OTOH, it's entirely possible a Gentoo /based/ enterprise distribution may |
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emerge at some point. IMO, however, there's enough conflict with what |
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makes Gentoo great at what it does today, that such efforts should be |
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separate from Gentoo itself. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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