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On Wednesday, 04. October. 2006 13:00, Thomas Cort wrote: |
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> There have been a number of developers leaving Gentoo in the past 6 |
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> months as well as a number of news stories on DistroWatch, Slashdot, |
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> LWN, and others about Gentoo's internal problems. No one seems to have |
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> pin pointed the problem, but it seems glaringly obvious to me. We |
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> simply don't have enough developers to support the many projects that |
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> we have. Here are my ideas for fixing this problem: |
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> - Cut the number of packages in half (put the removed ebuilds in |
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> community run overlays) |
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We (treecleaner, poke Alec about that) are currently working on something |
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alike. A user / Alec suggested putting removed packages into a seperate |
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overlay, so the ebuilds would be still accessible (without using |
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sources.gentoo.org and putting it into a local overlay). |
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> - Formal approval process (or at least strict criteria) for adding |
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> new packages |
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> - Make every dev a member of at least 1 arch team |
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I think that would solve the understaffing of some of the arch teams (iirc |
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amd64 and x86 are having enough devs / at's right now) |
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> - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting |
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Before you do that, you'll have to double the number of recruiters. Otherwise |
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you're creating a pretty bottleneck. |
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> - No competing projects |
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> - New projects must have 5 devs, a formal plan, and be approved by the |
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> council |
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> - Devs can only belong to 5 projects at most |
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Reducing the stress on people ? No clue what that would solve. |
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> - Drop all arches and Gentoo/Alt projects except Linux on amd64, |
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> ppc32/64, sparc, and x86 |
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I guess at least Diego and Fabian are going to yell at you right now. |
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> - Reduce the number of projects by eliminating the dead, weak, |
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> understaffed, and unnecessary projects |
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> - Project status reports once a month for every project |
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That would be great, but to whom should they report ? The council ? Or |
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via -core ? |
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Christian Heim <phreak at gentoo.org> |
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