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Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> said: |
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>>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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>>>I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's |
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>>>mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very |
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>>>successful as an Enterprise distribution, and I don't think that it can |
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>>>every be very successful as a binary distribution, either. The things |
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>>>that make us, that is Gentoo, unique, and the best in our area, by |
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>>>definition are the /same/ sort of things that make a relatively poor |
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>>>enterprise or binary distribution. |
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>>I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a |
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>>meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution |
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>>easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. |
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>>I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause |
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>>friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving |
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>>certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to |
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>>have a single direction. |
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> +1 |
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> Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some sort of |
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> "global vision" we are only going to restrict this. |
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I never meant that each subproject can't have their own goals. They need |
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to have those of course! I was more directed that there isn't a person |
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in charge of all the subprojects just to keep track of them (Not |
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governing them). i.e. if subproject foo is working on adding feature X |
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to portage, then this person could make sure the portage people know |
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that these folks are wanting to add that feature instead of blind siding |
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them. Of course, if we lived in a perfect world, they would go ahead and |
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work together like that. I'm not stating that we'd want to restrict |
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everyone from doing what they want, just that there's some kind of |
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direction/guidance/overall project manager that keeps track of all these |
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projects. They would keep track of all this and report back to the |
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council/devs/etc. |
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We've gotten to the size that trying to get everyone communicating with |
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everyone is getting difficult. Having someone overseeing these things |
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might help development and make sure everyone is on the same page. |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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