Re: [gentoo-dev] PR Project Activity Issues

[AllenJB]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 21:30 Mon 26 Jan     , AllenJB wrote:
>> The Gentoo PR Project currently appears to be having difficulties with
>> keeping up, both with the newsletters and announcements, and I believe
>> this is currently reflecting badly on the project as a whole.
>
> It's easy to complain and harder to take action to actually improve
> things. From my point of view, it seems like you've got an awful lot of
> time for the former and none for the latter.
>
> Regarding the parts of PR besides the newsletter and events, let me know
> once you've done something useful like do the work to close a few PR
> bugs, and we'll talk then.
>
I submitted a newsletter item a couple of months ago in GuideXML 
format.[0] I have some ideas forming for more, but I'm kind of dissuaded 
by the lack of actual publishing of the newsletter or any news about why 
it is not being published.

[0] http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gmn/20081130-newsletter.xml

As I said in my opening post, I currently don't believe I have the time 
to commit to being a full time developer, but intend to as soon as I do.

If you have some insight as to why these are apparent issues, please 
teach me. I would not have posted this thread if it were not for the 
fact that several developers also seem to think there is a problem and 
there seems to be no discussion going on that I can see as to what the 
causes of the problems are and how to solve them, so I decided to start one.

PR has the dubious honor of being probably the most publicly visible of 
all the Gentoo projects, so maybe the issues are being blown out of 
proportion, but without any discussion there's no way to discover 
whether or not this is the case.

Perhaps things would be better if we did not discuss this at just let 
the status quo stand?

AllenJB