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On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:48, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> I'm looking for comments on what, exactly, constitutes a platform worth |
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> recruiting developers for. I like to be extremely careful when selecting |
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> new developers both to keep the bar set high for developer status and |
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> for security reasons (every new account is a potential attack vector, |
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> especially when you consider that a developer's box could be compromised |
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> and used to get in), so I'm very inclined to reject requests for new |
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> developers who will only be working on a very small niche like XBox |
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> support (especially when it's really just embedded x86 and it seems |
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> like there wouldn't be too much maintainance work involved). I would |
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> also be inclined to reject developers for, say, m68k. |
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> What do you guys think? |
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Personally, I see no reason at all to recruit developers for the Xbox. |
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There really is not enough difference between it and a regular PC to |
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require a "port" be made. The most I would expect to see would be an |
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xbox profile, since the only difference would be that it would require a |
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few specialized ebuilds that only affect that platform. A good example |
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would be the xbox-sources that would be needed. |
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What would really be nice would be to simply use a stackable profile for |
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xbox, once that is working in portage. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer |
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Games/LiveCD Teams |
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Gentoo Linux |
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