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On Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:27:58 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > Which means they do not care about Gentoo over all. They only care about |
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> > the pieces they use or work with. |
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> Sure. Why shouldn't they? |
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Someone or group should be looking after Gentoo over all. That was the idea |
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behind the Council. To oversee Gentoo as a whole. |
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> >> The people who are going to be most motivated to contribute to |
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> >> specific areas of Gentoo are those who care the most about those |
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> >> specific areas. That's basically how Gentoo works. |
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> > Which again means no one cares about Gentoo over all. No one cares to |
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> > bring |
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> > all the pieces together. |
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> All the pieces do come together. What pieces on Gentoo do you see not |
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> working together? |
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How do the various projects come together without any coordination or |
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awareness? That anything comes together now is just by chance. Since projects/ |
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teams are working on their own. |
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Are the Council and Trustees working together? Do either work with Infra? How |
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about interacting with the various projects? Is there any interaction? Or just |
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when someone brings something to the Council. Passive vs proactive. |
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> > Gentoo doesn't really work. That is part of the misnomer. |
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> Your conclusion doesn't follow. The fact that Java on Gentoo doesn't |
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> work doesn't mean that Gentoo doesn't work. If people cared that much |
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> about Java working on Gentoo, then it would work. |
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Why do you assume I am only speaking about Gentoo Java? Is every aspect of |
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Gentoo over staffed? Is Gentoo getting a new developer every month at minimum? |
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Java is NOT the only area of Gentoo suffering. It is one of the largest areas |
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being neglected. Java packages can likely dwarf most other languages, short of |
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C or C++. |
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Just about any where you look in Gentoo you will see things understaffed. |
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> Care isn't measured in mailing list posts, it is measured in pull |
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> requests and such. |
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That is another matter entirely. More neglect when the community tries to |
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submit stuff as there is a lack of people to handle to process the PR. Which |
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does not encourage more. Presently 135 PRs on Github. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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