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Heya Chris, |
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Thank you for responding! |
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On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:51 +0100, Christopher O'Neill wrote: |
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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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So, if we somehow ensured we kept up to date with projects and where |
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they were at and maybe worked closely with our GWN liaison to maybe do a |
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'whats hot' type section of what's brewing? |
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Now, as there is constant change I don't think we could make sure that |
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we could keep you updated on every single detail but we could certainly |
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entertain the thought of looking into ways of giving a brief update on |
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various projects progress. |
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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 watched that thread with much interest. And yes, we need to improve |
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developer to user communication/information on other mediums as well. |
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Mind, a decent number of developers make good use of their planet. blogs |
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and they are always good to keep an eye on. |
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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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Yes, I think the fear issue is quite a big one for many users, and for |
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some developers and prevent them from both asking questions and piping |
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in with ideas. And we certainly need to work on making people feel more |
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welcome again. |
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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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We will look at what other ways we have of keeping people informed, and |
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see how we can make various projects work together on making sure we |
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reach as many users as possible. |
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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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That is a pretty decent idea, however I suspect many developers already |
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invest whatever time they have in to the work they currently do and |
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won't be looking to take on yet another task. We may however look at |
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ways of keeping updated with various projects and doing something with |
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GWN to keep you more up to date. It's certainly something we are happy |
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to toy with to try find a way of doing this that works both for |
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$rand_project, User Relations, GWN and the target userbase. |
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> Anyway Christel, I hope this is the sort of response you are looking for. |
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Again, Thank you very much Chris. It was certainly the sort of response |
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I was after! If you have anything to add, don't hesitate to grab us! |
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Christel |
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