Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux Development Organization

[Dan Armak]

On Friday 13 July 2001 23:48, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As you probably all have noticed, Gentoo Linux development is really
> starting to heat up.  To help Gentoo Linux development happen more rapidly,
> I'm making changes to the development team structure so that more work can
> be completed in parallel rather by a single person or group of people (i.e.
> achim and me).  To do this, I'm going to be organizing our current
> monolithic development team into several sub-teams:
>
> System Team
>
> The system team is going to focus on creating a stable Gentoo Linux base
> system, and will be in charge of the ebuilds in the sys-* categories.  This
> team will continually refine the base system, and provide completed, stable
> base systems to the other teams to serve as a base for their work.
>
> Tools Team
>
> The tools team will focus on maintaining a stable suite of auxilliary
> development tools (those not included in the the base system).  Like the
> server team, their work will build on top of the latest stable system
> snapshot release.
>
> Server Team
>
> The server team is going to focus on creating a stable, robust and secure
> suite of server application ebuilds (everything in net-* categories and a
> few others).  They will base their testing on the latest stable system
> snapshot provided by the System team and the latest stable snapshot of the
> tools team.
>
> Desktop Team
>
> The desktop team will focus on desktop apps and environments, such as KDE,
> GNOME, X and desktop applications like gimp and mozilla.  Again, they'll
> build on the work of the system team and the tools team.
>
> NOTE: The above four teams will be responsible for maintaining a *stable*
> and *development* branch of their work.  This means that every team will be
> able to provide production-ready suites of ebuilds at any time.
>
> Infrastructure Team
>
> The Infrastructure team is a special-purpose team that will focus their
> efforts on upgrading the Web site, improving the dev-wiki, providing
> mirroring services and the like.  They will also be responsible for press
> releases, freshmeat.net posts, user account maintenance and web
> documentation.  Additionally, the Infrastructure Team will develop the boot
> CD and installer projects.  You can think of the Infrastucture team as
> Gentoo Linux IT, community relations, documentation and
> ease-of-installation teams rolled into one.
>
> Each team will have a team leader that will direct team development efforts
> and will be responsible for the team as a whole.  The team leader will also
> have the authority to organize his team as he sees fit; for example, the
> desktop team leader can create two special-purpose GNOME and KDE teams if
> he feels that is necessary.  The team leaders will report directly to me
> and Achim.
>
> Achim and I will supervise the work of all teams, and will help all the
> teams as needed.  For the time being, our efforts will be focused on the
> System Team.
>
> All Gentoo Linux developers should email me privately and let me know what
> team they'd like to be on (first and second choice) as well as if they want
> to be a Team Leader.  Note that although the team leaders will have
> additional authority, they will also have additional responsibilities
> (since they'll be responsible for an entire part of Gentoo Linux) and will
> need to be able to devote a good chunk of time to Gentoo Linux development.
>  This also means that if Achim and aren't satisfied with the progress of a
> team, we of course may replace the team leader with someone else.  So
> anyone volunteering for the position of team leader should understand that
> it will be much more demanding than a normal developer position.
>



I suppose I'll join the desktop team.
But, before I focus my activities on the desktop, I'll create ebuilds for all 
the programs I want to use in all the other categories.

Dan Armak