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On 15/11/14 14:43, hasufell wrote: |
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> We should recruit less people and instead make an effort to review other |
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> peoples overlays and include a list of high-quality overlays on our website. |
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Since every post in this thread has been (more or less) positive, I |
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would like to raise a word of caution though: For people who deploy |
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Gentoo to servers as well, trust (in the broadest sense) is an important |
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factor. Personally, I wouldn't feel too comfortable using a dozen or so |
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overlays by community members to get a proper LAPP stack together and |
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similar things. That is actually also one of the things I quite dislike |
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about ArchLinux (AUR) and Ubunutu (PPA). |
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On my desktop machine I only use overlays I trust that are maintained by |
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either official Gentoo herds/projects or individual devs. |
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There is a sense of trust if something is in-tree that it is maintained |
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by people (devs) who actually know and care about what they do and that |
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there are certain protocols in place to deal with security issues and |
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avoid violations of any kind. All of that would be hard to orchestrate |
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in a distributed model like suggested. |
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I know, reality is a bit different from that. But still, keeping only |
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core packages in-tree while pushing the rest into the hand of the |
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community... well... that is changing the picture entirely. |
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> The good part is: any dev can do this and it moves away from our broken |
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> centralized packaging model. |
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> In addition, this will take off workload from the recruiters team. |
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Probably also lowering the influx of new developers even more, if the |
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single purpose is to work on "core" packages, the PM, infra and the |
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project itself. |
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I don't want to start a flame war or sound in any way condescending, I |
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simply care about Gentoo too much that I would hate to see it take a |
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direction that could possibly be more harmful than helpful in the end. |
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Just my 2 cents... |
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So long, |
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Matthias <-- goes away now to hide somewhere save ;-) |