[gentoo-project] Re: Daunting developer process? (was Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting) 2013-09-10

[Steven J. Long]

On Wed, Sep 18, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> Using a different approach to gain more developers might have more impact
> than you imagine on the quality of the distribution as well as the progress
> it makes. If the distribution would be 12 developers, it wouldn't be all
> that hard to make a good roadmap and focus areas. Twelve people can easily
> decide amongst each other what to do. But 200+ developers is a different
> ballgame (hence the need for "bureaucratic" things like the Gentoo Council)
> where decisions need to be weighted and where every individual can
> contribute (or block) to the progress of the distribution.
>
> Imagine what would happen if we had 500+ developers.

Thanks you for a wonderfully succinct explanation of the damage that would
be done if Gentoo developer status were awarded to people who did not 
nderstand how to develop the end-product, eg: out of deference to technical
knowledge in other domains.

Can I ask that you paste the whole text of your response into the Gentoo
docs site somewhere? This comes up so often, on the forums and on IRC, it
would help to have it where people will see it. Personally I'd paste it at
the top of the devmanual front-page, so giving someone the link to that also
ensures they are looking at it. Your call, ofc.

Regards,
steveL.
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