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As you've seen, Chainsaw is on the list as a council candidate. |
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I use Gentoo in a professional capacity, as a UNIX systems administrator |
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for one of the largest internet exchanges in the world [1]. Right now, I |
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administer 42 machines running non-multilib hardened AMD64. |
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The topic of "Gentoo in the enterprise" surfaces from time to time on |
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the mailing lists, but the current direction that Gentoo is taking seems |
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to steer away from it. |
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Should you elect me to the council, I will do my best to discourage the |
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frequent usage of overlays. Not only can overlay ebuilds slip through |
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the QA net that is frequently trawled through the main tree (and they |
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often do), the ownership is not always clear. There is no central |
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location to report bugs in overlay ebuilds. |
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Last but not least, moving ebuilds out into overlays means that larger |
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deployments like mine are unable to use them. |
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One other problem that has appeared on my radar more then once lately. |
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When developers lose motivation and stop committing to a package for |
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which they are the sole maintainer it can take a considerable amount of |
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time before this is dealt with in the form of a retirement bug or "last |
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rites" e-mail. |
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With a business dependency on some packages, that can be too long. I |
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believe we should actively seek out such packages and see if another |
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developer can be motivated to take the package over. |
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Failing that, I believe no ebuild is a fairer situation then an |
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outdated/stagnant ebuild with open bugs that are not looked at. Some |
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automated QA processes like the tinderbox already help with this but |
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without official recognition of these bugs as QA matters the full |
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potential of it goes untapped. |
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In writing this, I realise that some or all of what I have just written |
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may be controversial to you. Can I ask that you speak with your vote and |
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not in this mailing list. |
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Regards, |
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Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon |
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1: https://www.linx.net/about/index.html |