Re: [gentoo-dev] *IMPORTANT* top-level management structure!

[Peter Johanson]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:02:32AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03.33, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> 2.  What are the core applications.  Is it a desktop, a server orinitated
> system or a system compremised to do both.  I would suggest desktop as I
> think thats what it is mainly used for, but I don't have the stats so I could
> be well off the mark. (Market research required)

One of the strenghts of gentoo, IMHO, is that it is suitable for *any*
of these uses. We don't need "core" applications in the sense of
distinguishing it as one type of distro or the other. It is a
metadistribution in every sense of the word, including not confining
itself to one "specialty"

> 3.  What platform should be supported at release time.  Here I think x86 and
> maybe x86-64.  Targeting too many will just delay it.  Have some other dates
> for the rest to follow.
>
> These are just really fundementals but until the requirements are documented
> things will never really come together.
>
> Get things out in the open.  Gentoo-core is probably the worst idea someone
> ever came up with, OSS development is meant to be a very transparent process.
> Make it transparent.  I know there are always private issues but if they
> involve more than 3 people then perhaps they should be public.

i know there has been strong movement to move more things off of -core
and to -dev, as well as reducing non development issues to -user.
Continuing this effort, and keeping -core for truely important issues,
(konwn vulnerabilities like the KDE one from a while back) is important.
It should be stressed that -dev should be considered *the* place for
development mails, and -core for truly *core* specific issues.

-- 
Peter Johanson
<latexer@g.o>