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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> Wanted to share my thoughts on where I think Gentoo should go, in terms |
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> of direction. Would love to hear your thoughts. |
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> http://dberkholz.com/2015/01/13/gentoo-needs-focus-to-stay-relevant/ |
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Interesting post, and I liked bits of the discussion in this thread. |
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As a software developer, I really like how easy Gentoo makes it for me |
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to pull in bits I need for any kind of project I might come up with. |
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On the other hand, I think we suffer from the competition of |
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language-specific packaging solutions (e.g. NPM, pip/virtualenv, |
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RVM/gems). Maybe containerization/Docker will swing this back, though |
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I don't quite like the direction Docker takes. I'm really looking for |
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something even more lightweight that would fit in better with Gentoo, |
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e.g. some solution where I can have a container in which I can use |
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portage to install stuff, but depend on the @system, from the host |
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system. Integration between our package management and |
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containerization feels like it could be very powerful. |
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Mostly, I worry about our contribution process debt (this term was |
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recently coined by a guy from the Mozilla community, read |
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http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2015/01/09/firefox-contribution-process-debt/ |
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and subsequent posts for background). Given our heavy-weight |
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recruiting process, and CVS, and the lack of manpower in e.g. infra, |
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it definitely feels like we have issues here. I think that could |
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potentially be very important to keep Gentoo alive (and keep a fresh |
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inflow of new developers going). |
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Cheers, |
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Dirkjan |
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