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Dear all, |
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I start to subscribe all the messages that have been exchanged2 and |
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would like to start to cite a very important sentence mentioned by Kent |
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in zoom thread, that concerns me: |
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On 4/7/20 7:23 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> But utlimately, this is not a technology problem: Its a staffing problem. |
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As my humble contribution, I wish to see Gentoo as the most used |
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distribution along with their child distributions. I always believe this |
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is possible with the right tools. The utopia would be to see one day |
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every company to follow Gentoo QA policies to win their clients, but |
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what do we need to do to get there? |
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Share the information to the users to change their critical view when |
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demanding the software. |
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Every time we neglect this we are becoming more lonely and some day open |
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source software will be a myth. |
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Gentoo, as the base reference, have good QA and provide the tools |
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reflected in is build system that is in constant improvement and |
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progression. Following this way, the distribution should be sturdy and |
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most possible complete, so it can adapt to the software market and their |
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evolution. |
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The common problem I think, is that software quality is lowering since |
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the hardware is very powerful, and the market is eager and blinded by |
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the hardware low cost. Optimizations are neglected and focused on UI, so |
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the delivery is faster then ever in the harshest market of all time for |
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the software majority. |
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So anytime I read about security is nowadays something so hard to do any |
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concern, but sharing all community knowledge we can have better trust |
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and allow to parse the bad software and practices. I know that this |
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can't be done easily, but let me call the opensource methodology to call |
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everyone who can help with that. So attracting new users would bring |
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more knowledge, allows also to spread the world enlarging the community, |
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that should result in greater trust for the defined QA. |
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This is why I think is so important to have the ebuilds, even if they |
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are in overlays. More ebuilds is better so we can collect the knowledge, |
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opposed to a standalone approach. |
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For those with more limited knowledge will let them to buy bad solutions |
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or do the wrong procedures. |
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The root problem will only be defeated by the end users and we need to |
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struggle the illiteracy about software in the community. |
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So, for me, any proposal of additional information is useful, even the |
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README.gentoo proposal by Ulrich in zoom thread. |
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Lets avoid the hide... Is better to know what have been done even if is |
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not possible to assure anything. This way someone could pick it and |
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continue the evaluation work. Clearly this will not be against the trust. |
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Then is so easy to create an ebuild with the provided tools that |
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everyone could do their contribution using overlays. Is awesome to know |
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that my personal overlay is being audited by Gentoo QA. I think you |
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could bet there the efforts! |
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Best, |
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Samuel |
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