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Peter Faraday Weller wrote: |
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> On a more serious note, the problem seems to be the complete lack of |
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> management in the required places, Gentoo is fast becoming (or more |
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> likely, already is) an anarchic organisation, where it's becoming |
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> nigh-on impossible to keep track of things. |
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> I see a number of issues with Gentoo these days. The lack of a proper |
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> leadership body. Lack of people working together in unison. The tree |
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> needs to be sorted out: we have >16000 packages, and 200-250 developers, |
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> not all of which are ebuild developers) - We're still using CVS, we do |
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> *not* have the manpower to keep all the packages updated properly using |
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> a centralised VCS. If these issues were fixed, I don't know/care how |
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> they do get fixed, but if they were, I might consider coming back. |
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Hi, |
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am I the only one to see a contradiction here? You criticise a |
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centralised VCS and anarchism/lack of unison work at the same time. |
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Wouldn't that be even worse with a distributed VCS then? :) |
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I think it would. Also too much use of overlays seems bad to me (yeah |
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the Java team is very guilty here :) and the idea of splitting tree to |
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overlays (which pops up from time to time) is just nonsense IMHO. |
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It seems that some people think distributed VCS (git) is a silver bullet |
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that will fix everything? Or pushing more and more EAPI's will? |
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I'm quite sure it won't fix the lack of focus. Which I somewhat feel |
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too, but that may be just from the fact that I currently lack time (not |
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motivation though, that seems almost inversely proportional :) ) for Gentoo. |
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If more people agree on the lack of focus, then we should do something |
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about it, instead of hoping that using better tools fixes it themselves. |
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