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> PORTAGE: |
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> Portage developers are afraid to put anything new in the tree for fear |
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> of breaking things (and somewhat rightly so). But as noted, it also |
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> means you get new stuff very infrequently. |
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> I think the portage team has either done a poor job of bringing their |
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> issues to the table; or the community has done a poor job addressing them. |
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So Brian Harring poked me on irc a bit, and I will expand upon this a bit. |
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This is not to say that the portage team does nothing (many members do |
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very little in terms of raw code, myself included which is why I left |
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the project). Features get written, bugs get fixed, new versions get |
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released. However there are what I would call key requirements that |
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Gentoo (the community and developers) require. These requirements are |
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not getting met by the portage team. |
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The common point against this is "developers do what we want, we |
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volunteer"..etc. I would think at this statement the community would |
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look for new team members (recruit) those able to complete the features |
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that are required. You can't bitch at a team that doesn't implement the |
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things that are required. However, you can't depend on a team like that |
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either. That would be like me going to the and making a reasonable |
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request and then being told that "they can't do that they are only |
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volunteers, and hell, it doesn't interest me." The Portage Team should |
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have a duty to the community in this regard. |
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In the end I get a realization that a core team is a better idea than I |
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initially thought. While in some cases turning down a request based on |
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"I'm a volunteer" is a reasonable request, there are areas where this is |
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not a good thing to have happen (Infra, recruiting, PR to some extent, |
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core-utilities). |
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I don't really want to criticize the portage team, it's filled with a |
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bunch of very knowledgeable folks. However I don't think the team as it |
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stands now is helping Gentoo as a whole. It is (as Ciaran mentioned |
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earlier in this thread) only holding Gentoo back. |
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