Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:26, Duncan wrote:
> This man speaks my mind.  That's one of the things I'm worried about with
> the Enterprise Gentoo thing, and why I think it will make a better
> separate project than part of Gentoo itself.

I agree mostly, too. Just that QA has more aspects than "cool nifty package x 
that has bleeding edge dep y, with dep y sitting due to QA concerns", to 
quote Brian. A QA team can work concurrently to other subprojects of Gentoo, 
spot testing ebuild quality, checking e.g. for correct dependencies and 
licenses (I stumpled about four false ones the last few months) and a lot of 
other things without slowing development down. It's a pity, that we don't 
have an proactive QA team.

The complaints about Gentoo having no direction, sound (at least in my ears) 
more like "Gentoo is not heading in the direction I want to have it." - so, 
attract developers who work with you on your goals (We don't have enough devs 
anyways, ~10% unmaintained packages in the tree speak for themselves) within 
Gentoo. I for one can't say we haven't seen a lot of improvements in 
different subprojects, just that it takes time.


> see the  history of the Panama canal for instance, but it takes a *LOT* of
work

Odd comparison, having in mind how much lives it did cost.


Carsten