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On July 18, 2020 8:49:49 PM EDT, Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o> wrote: |
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>On 2020-07-18 Sat 01:00, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> So I think we can, somewhat, get away from this framing. Just get the |
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>> community to pitch N projects and rank them. Offhand I can think of a |
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>few: |
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>> - Replace portage with pkgcore. |
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>> - pkgcore maintainer (replace radhermit; who has been asking for |
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>help for |
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>> months) |
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>> - Replace repoman with pkgcheck. |
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> |
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>Giving some perspective on the pkgcore/pkgcheck side of things, I'm not |
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>sure most people realize how much work, for example, replacing portage |
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>with pkgcore would entail. For a niche project within a niche OS, the |
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>interested base of users is a few orders of magnitude too small to move |
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>the needle much through generic crowdfunding. |
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> |
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>In the past, pkgcore did have a patreon account since an interested |
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>user |
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>kept poking me until I set it up. I think it peaked around a handful of |
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>patrons and dwindled to nothing until I closed it earlier this year. |
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>While I thank all those who contributed for their interest/generosity, |
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>to put the stats bluntly, I think it garnered less than a person around |
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>my level could make in a day's work across 3 years. |
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> |
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>From my experience in software development, the most feasible method of |
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>getting higher levels of work done in open source generally requires a |
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>company hiring/contracting known project contributors to work on |
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>things. |
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>For rewrite projects like pkgcore, it can be incredibly difficult to |
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>convince entrenched interests that funding some core replacement will |
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>turn out as anything more than an expensive, time-consuming moonshot. |
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> |
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>For myself personally wrt pkgcore/pkgcheck, I'm somewhat open to |
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>third-party funding for specific work. To be honest, I don't see much |
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>of |
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>a future for the project under the current development scheme so more |
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>quantified external support might help spur more interest. |
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> |
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>Tim |
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Tim, are you stating that rewriting Portage is near impossible? |
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