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On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:07 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 "Christopher O'Neill" |
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> <chris.oneill@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a |
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> | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly |
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> | newsletter (which currently seems to be lacking much useful |
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> | information). It would be great if we (the users) could find out |
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> | what's going on behind the scenes of our favourite distribution. |
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> The problem with this is... Once someone says "we're working on $x", |
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> they're continuously pestered about it by users asking when it will be |
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> ready. Given how few of us are paid to work specific hours on Gentoo |
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> things, it's very easy for provisional release dates to be missed -- |
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> and when half of a developer's time is spent responding to questions |
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> about where $x is and why an early test of $x pulled out of a |
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> supposedly "not for end users" repo broke their system and the other |
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> half is spent writing status updates it's pretty much impossible to get |
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> anything out consistently. |
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So, from a developer pov Ciaran; if we could come up with some way of |
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keeping up to date with what you guys do (without eating up any of your |
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time or getting in your way) and then keep the masses informed, would |
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that be more attractive? Obviously making sure that information is kept |
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to a not exactly bare minimum, but presented in such a way that it |
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doesn't in any way halt progress or potential change of direction? |
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> Hence why some of us don't announce non-trivial projects on public |
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> mailing lists, and instead keep any discussion on -core and sekrit IRC |
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> channels. That's how what's now known as eselect was developed, and |
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> it turned out far nicer than the XML-laden aborted gentoo-config |
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> project precisely because of the lack of end user 'input'. |
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In more of a informative 'these are the exciting things we're doing' |
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sort of way rather than a 'tell us why you disagree' sort of way maybe. |
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> I mean, as a purely hypothetical example... Could you imagine just how |
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> many dumb feature requests, questions and requests for code from the |
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> unwashed masses someone would get if they admitted to having an early |
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> alpha of an alternative to Portage that didn't require Python? Having |
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> to deal with the noise would be more than enough to ensure that no more |
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> development would ever get done... |
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Purely hypothetically I suspect you'd be better suited for answering |
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that question than I am. |
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