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Matthew Marlowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> The following are just my opinions/summaries: |
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> 1) It appears that the most dissatisfied devs are those |
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> who have been proponents of the "enterprise" aspect |
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> of gentoo. When they say that not much has been |
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> accomplished in the last 2 years, I think you have to |
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> look at it from the enterprise point of view. GLEP19 |
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> never got anywhere. Other than small improvements, |
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> I'm not sure anything positive has happened. If anything, |
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> Gentoo appears to be heading more in the "desktop" |
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> and "hobbyist" direction. That might be what they mean |
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> when they say gentoo is becoming irrelevant. |
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And who is responsible for making those "enterprise" aspects of Gentoo a |
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reality? If you can't sell your idea to the other developers then you |
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are stuck doing all the work yourself, and I think part of that is just |
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how things are. |
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I make references to Portage because that is the team with which I am |
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intimately familiar. Including Enhancement requests that are marked |
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RESOLVED LATER due to them being completely out of scope for the current |
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codebase we have ~360 open bugs. At least when I look at those bugs I |
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try to order by triviality first, then by interest, and when the insane |
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moments strike me, by importance. Granted, I am not a Gentoo Portage |
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Developer, but I attempt to help out when I can. If you need something |
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and it's trivial, or I find the concept interesting or fun I'll probably |
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try it out, most likely right then, but if it's something difficult, |
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especially something that would just be a huge PITA to do with the 2.0 |
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codebase, then it probably won't get done anytime soon. |
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So are you going to blame me for not implementing the stuff you want? |
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Is it my fault that I'm not properly motivated to implement your features? |
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You can't blame the whole community for not implementing what you want, |
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since the responsibility for getting it done is essentially your own. |
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That being said, I haven't heard any noise recently about GLEP 19. |
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Maybe I'm in the wrong channels? Perhaps you need to reshape and |
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resubmit the GLEP. Part of having the community work with you is |
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letting the community mold your idea. I enjoyed the whole emerge news |
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GLEP ( although Ciaran seems to dislike my mails ;) ) because I knew in |
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the end we would have a well rounded GLEP that suits everyone. |
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Alec Warner (antarus) |
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