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On 06/26/2018 04:37 PM, Christopher Díaz Riveros wrote: |
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> What do council-nominees think about the current lack of manpower in Gentoo as a |
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> whole, and how do you propose to confront this situation, with facts? |
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Gentoo reputation needs improvement in order to attract new developers |
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and contributors; which is being done by being visible at events and in |
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media. For geographical reasons my focus is mostly on [FOSDEM] and |
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promoting sides of Gentoo that focuses on it as a serious distribution |
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and not just a kid's toy as it is often misunderstood for, e.g by |
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creating a [flyer] with company testimonials. |
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Additionally training new developers is more costly than existing |
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developers increasing their current contributions, which was ultimately |
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the reason I accepted joining comrel. |
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> In the same line that previous question, what global decisions do you consider |
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> necessary in order to solve the manpower issue? |
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I don't believe there are specific global decisions that can be made to |
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do that, but we need to be more visible in a positive way. In this |
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context the [AMA] that prometheanfire arranged for was rather successful. |
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> Finally, and this is just a personal opinion, right now I see many devs trying |
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> to pull Gentoo to different sides, but what I can't see is a set of common |
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> beliefs that join us all in the same vision of what Gentoo should be or do in |
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> the near future... how could you address this issue? |
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I don't necessarily see Gentoo being pulled more to different sides than |
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it has historically, but the common believes should be Libre Software |
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more than anything. Given Gentoo is about choice I don't see how we can |
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avoid having differences in opinions, but that is ultimately a good |
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thing as long as they can be discussed in a fruitful way. That said; |
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this is why we have a council to begin with, to provide decisions when |
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different groups are disagreeing on the way forward. |
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> And if you don't consider this an issue, because of being a community-driven |
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> project etc, how else do you explain the lack of public information about what |
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> Gentoo has done to improve the issues it had 8~10 years ago? |
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> If you search |
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> Gentoo in google, besides our official pages, there are a bunch of articles |
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> addressing Gentoo issues that seem to be old but are not "solved" properly |
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> anywhere. Right now I have to go to work, but I'll try to add some references |
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> later today or when requested. |
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Gentoo today is very different than it was 8-10 years ago, so indeed |
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would be more useful to get specific examples of what you're thinking of. |
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References: |
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[FOSDEM] |
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https://blog.sumptuouscapital.com/2018/02/gentoo-at-fosdem-2018/ |
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[flyer] |
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https://dev.gentoo.org/~k_f/fosdem-2018-flyer.pdf |
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[AMA] |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8nsdj0/we_are_gentoo_developers_ama/ |
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