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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even |
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> vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole |
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> Gentoo dev list to see. |
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Gentoo has been missing some kind of direction/goal for some time now. |
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Looking back at the last two years, what are the major |
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changes/accomplishments that we have done? Granted, I know there has |
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been great strides in improvement in some things, but I really wonder |
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about any ground breaking enhancements. |
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Since the council is the closest representation to a leader we have, I'd |
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like to ask if they can come up with some kind of global goals for 2006 |
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and beyond. You don't need to come up with goals by this meeting if you |
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haven't had time, but at least by the February meeting. Each group can |
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have their own goals, but we lack any overall binding goals or |
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direction. We've brought on numerous devs in the past year, and I have |
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yet to see a huge improvement in QA or anything else. Numbers aren't |
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everything. If anything, it makes it harder to maintain good QA. |
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There's a lot of people out there frustrated with Gentoo because of the |
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lack of QA and direction. Package foo changes a bunch of config |
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locations, package bar gets upgraded and causes a bunch of QA |
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nightmares. At least from an admin point of view, Gentoo has gotten |
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harder to maintain. Granted, thats a question for Gentoo itself. Who |
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exactly are we catering to? Power users? New users? We can't satisfy |
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everyone out there and need to draw a line of how much we'll devote to |
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keeping the new user from destroying their system, etc. |
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I'm not sure of the exact solution. Its just been pretty frustrating |
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lately hearing folks complain about this and that when I know that we |
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could do so much better. Maybe we're just happy with being where we're |
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at. I know I'm not. There's a niche that Gentoo fits really well and I |
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think we should focus on perfecting that niche instead of trying to be |
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better than distroA or distroB. |
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Ok, thats all my ranting for today. Hopefully I didn't start off the |
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next world flamewar :-) |
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Cheers- |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager |
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