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Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 15:35 +0300 schrieb Markos Chandras: |
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> On Monday 04 May 2009 14:50:56 Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 4 May 2009 04:34:20 -0400 |
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> [..] |
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> > I've been a developer a bit over 5 years. We know the problems and are |
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> > working to fix them. |
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> I am sure that you know them. But those problems are the reasons why more and |
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> more developers are demotivated and leaving Gentoo. 'Fixing' those problems |
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> should be a N1 priority on every gentoo council meeting until they are gone. |
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> There is absolutely no point in trying to introduce new features and stuff when |
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> we are so understaffed. First we need to bring more people on Gentoo and keep |
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> the current manpower motivated. When we are done with that, we can focus on |
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> features :\ |
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The point of most features is to make maintenance easier and reduce |
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breakages at user-side which hopefully reduces the amount of bugs |
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reported because of such breakages and keep our users happy and happy |
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users are more likely to contribute or become devs when they see some |
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progress. |
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But you're right, we have to find the balance somehow... |
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Tiziano Müller |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member |
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Areas of responsibility: |
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Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor |
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E-Mail : dev-zero@g.o |
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