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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > Even a "volunteer-driven" organization needs some "standard" rules in |
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> > order to survive. From time to time this "volunteer" moto is what some |
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> > people consider as "anarchy" |
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> As far as survival goes - I think the rumors of Gentoo's death are |
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> greatly exaggerated. I certainly agree that we need standards, but as |
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> far as I can tell those exist. |
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> I don't see developers putting QA violations into the portage tree left |
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> and right. For the most part I'd say the level of abuse in bugzilla is |
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> down and continues to trend down. Sure, manpower is limited, but the |
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> solution to that isn't to tell the people who are here to "work harder |
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> or quit" (which means quit) but instead to recruit more help. |
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When,how,and who is going to write down a list of possible "recruitment |
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hunting" actions? There is too much chit-chatting around but nobody ( |
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including me of course) is daring to propose actual solutions and proposals |
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> Arch |
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> teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs |
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> on the major archs - if you use a minor arch that isn't as well |
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> supported I'm sure we'd be happy to have more help. |
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Arch teams, according to their project pages, are in a good shape. Major |
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arches have enough people ( assuming that the project pages are up2date ) |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound] |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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