[gentoo-dev] Re: devs on IRC (was :Regen2 ( was QA Overlay Layout support ))

[Duncan]

Michael Higgins <linux@×××××××.org> posted
20090313140558.048bbfa2@×××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13
Mar 2009 14:05:58 -0700:

> Example? After months of searching for a reason, after seeing many
> apparently random updates to a previously stable tree of perl modules, I
> happen to keep an IRC session log which shows with this FSCKING USEFUL
> TIDBIT:
>
> "... no motivated developers. the perl team completely vanished."
>
> Anyone considering using Gentoo should KNOW that, if they use perl in
> any substantive way. Wouldn't you agree?

Indeed.

> Anyway, it's just one example. In this case, I'd be glad to see *some*
> documentation of the (apparent total) collapse of the 'perl team' and
> what is being proposed to fix the problem, *without* having to become
> part of the cabal.

And thanks for providing a bit of that documentation here.  That is in 
fact one of the reasons I follow this list, and it has in fact forewarned 
me of several issues some time before I had to deal with them.  I'm thus 
very happy to have this list to follow. =:^)

But I had seen absolutely nothing on the above, the perl team basically 
disappearing, until your documentation of it in your post.  It would have 
been nice to have seen a bit on the list about it previously, ideally 
from a dev noting the problem and asking what we can do about it.  But 
given nothing from them (except apparently on IRC), I'll take what I can 
get, from a user, sometime *after* I should have known about it, as a 
Gentoo user concerned enough to actually follow the dev list to *get* 
such information. =:^(

So thanks. Dev or nodev, I'm glad there are folks like you around!  =:^)

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