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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Recruiters need your help!
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:33:45
Message-Id: m47rnu$adt$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Recruiters need your help! by hasufell
1 On 16/11/14 02:00, hasufell wrote:
2 > On 11/15/2014 03:44 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> On 16/11/14 00:43, hasufell wrote:
5 >>>>
6 >>>> We should recruit less people and instead make an effort to review other
7 >>>> peoples overlays and include a list of high-quality overlays on our website.
8 >>>>
9 >>>> The good part is: any dev can do this and it moves away from our broken
10 >>>> centralized packaging model.
11 >>>> In addition, this will take off workload from the recruiters team.
12 >>>
13 >>> High-quality, reviewed overlays is a good idea. We still need more
14 >>> recruiters though.
15 >>>
16 >>
17 >> ++
18 >>
19 >> I'm all for implementing a more distributed model, though I think it
20 >> would take a bit more than just a list of overlays (we need better
21 >> policies around eclass changes and the like, unless we want overlays
22 >> to fork them). That said, we've talked about that many times and
23 >> until we're happily buzzing along with 47 high-quality overlays let's
24 >> not turn off the developer production factory.
25 >>
26 >
27 > Turning it off will decrease organizational problems, make the
28 > distribution more focused and eventually more high quality, because
29 > people would be able to actually work together on the _core_ of gentoo
30 > (toolchain, base-system, eclasses, PM...).
31 >
32 > So, I was specifically talking about a distributed model _opposed_ to
33 > adding new "developers" every time we are short on a team.
34 >
35 > Of course, this would also require us to actually work together _with_
36 > the community.
37
38 When can we expect your announcement of a new project working towards a
39 more distributed model?