[gentoo-dev] Thoughts on the whole gentoo future discussion

[Matthew Marlowe]

Hi all,

The following are just my opinions/summaries:

1)  It appears that the most dissatisfied devs are those
who have been proponents of the "enterprise" aspect
of gentoo.  When they say that not much has been
accomplished in the last 2 years, I think you have to 
look at it from the enterprise point of view.  GLEP19
never got anywhere.  Other than small improvements,
I'm not sure anything positive has happened.  If anything,
Gentoo appears to be heading more in the "desktop"
and "hobbyist" direction.  That might be what they mean
when they say gentoo is becoming irrelevant.

Therefore, I think the devs who favor the desktop stuff
just really arent understanding how the enterprise devs
have been disillusioned here.  Certainly, there is alot of
cool stuff happening in gentoo on the hobbyist and desktop
side.

2) Although the "future discussion" doesnt seem to be bringing
devs any closer together, I saw at least a few decent suggestions
that we should follow up on.

   -  Have a planned annual developers conference
           I think this is critical, I would be willing to help with the implementation
           if it gets the green light.

    -  Consider the possibility of eventually redefining gentoo entirely as a metadistribution
       and have devs more formerly broken up into different teams of enterprise, desktop, etc
       devs where the eventual product might be seperate trees or release media for each
       team.
             On the surface, this is appealing to me, but the implementation details are
             probably impossible.

I would also like to thank kurt and lance for throwing out their thoughts on this subject, even
when their is quite alot of resistance.

Regards,
MattM
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