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As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved |
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communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it |
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feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regarding to how we are |
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progressing on certain things. Let me pick some examples: |
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. A few days ago someone posted on the dev list asking about KDE3.5.x |
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and it's current masked status. As a KDE user myself I was also |
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interested in the answer to his question, but to my dismay his first |
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response was less than helpful! Although he did eventually get a |
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satisfactory response, wouldn't it have been better if he hadn't had |
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to ask at all? I'm sure many more people are wondering the same and |
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probably aren't subscribed to this list. |
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. I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and |
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have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I |
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know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly |
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with GCC4 and that there are no introduced bugs, but I have no idea |
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how we are progressing on this - and wouldn't even like to ask for |
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fear of asking in the wrong place.. |
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. How's portage 2.1 getting along? I notice it gets frequent updates. |
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I am not asking for answers for those questions, they are merely |
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examples (I could think of many more, so please don't single these |
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out). The point I am making is how we (the users) are in the dark on |
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how Gentoo is progressing. This is the main reason I have subscribed |
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to this mailing list (as well as Gentoo-Users) in an attempt to keep |
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track of what's happening, but without much success). |
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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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Anyway Christel, I hope this is the sort of response you are looking for. |
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Chris |
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