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On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 00:11 +0100, Charlie Shepherd wrote: |
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> > some want it to be bleeding-edge |
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> I think you'd struggle to get Gentoo to stop being on the bleeding edge :) |
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I'm pretty sure we're more cutting edge and less bleeding edge these |
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days. We've slowed down quite a bit simply due to sheer size of the |
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tree and the added complexities involved with it. |
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> > Obviously, arbitrarily |
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> > choosing one of those directions would mean losing a lot of developers, and |
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> > this is something we can't afford to do. |
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> We could of course move in several directions at once... |
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Exactly. |
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We don't have to have global goals. We just want *some* goals. Each of |
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the major functional groups can define their own goals, and they would |
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be Gentoo's goals. We just don't all have to work on the same thing. |
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After all, how many companies only work on exactly one thing, putting |
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all of their employees on the one task? I'd venture to guess that only |
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the very small would do that. Most companies branch out into multiple |
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directions at once. Gentoo fits in more with this style of thinking, |
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since we cater to very different user groups with different projects |
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within our ranks. |
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> > The current devrel authority is reduced to only the core |
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> > project |
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> I don't think this is a good idea. Most projects are short on people |
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> already, without having to have their members wasting time policing |
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> themselves. |
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This is exactly what I mean by all of the groups having to reinvent the |
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wheel. We already have a recruitment staff. Why do we now need $x |
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recruitment methodologies for $x projects? |
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> Just because stuff isn't maintained doesn't mean that it's not being |
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> used, and if it's not broken I fail to see why it should be removed. |
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I've seen many times people say "well, this hasn't been touched |
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since..." when a package has no bugs. Of *course* it hasn't been |
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touched. It just works. I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a |
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few packages that fall into this category. |
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