Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part II.

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 07:29, splite wrote:
>
> I hope not, otherwise you'll see it forking into "Fun Gentoo" and
> "Structured Gentoo".  Guess where the hackers will go.

Guess where the users will go. 

Although I don't like politics, they are unavoidable. There are now like 150 
developers for gentoo. Having a single "boss", and a "lieutenant" with no 
structure at all is not going to work. Especially as the amount of developers 
grows. We need structure. Part of that structure is a place where things are 
documented, like responsibilities.

The problem is that with 30 developers you could easilly ask something you 
didn't know. Now the problem is that you can still ask, but you don't know 
who to ask. Documenting procedure and formalizing a bit should help.

There are also many people and organizations that want gentoo to run on their 
servers. Those people have one thing they REALLY REALLY hate, and that is 
comming to office in the morning and finding out that the nightly world 
update fucked up their setup, and it will take at least until the end of the 
morning fixing things up. Normally such thing will mean a great loss of 
productivity.

Since we believe that the gentoo technology is better than the competition, 
even for servers we want to offer what they want while keeping what we have. 
For offering what is needed for servers we do need more quality assurance. 

With QA and the growth of the project comes a management structure. That 
structure is inevitable. John made a proposal on how to arange parts of that 
structure. While we will put every effort in it not to create a new debian, 
we need to be more organized than before.

So please all discuss the merrits of his proposals. I believe that the 
problems they try to address are there and are well accepted.

Paul

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