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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, davecode@××××××××××.net wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo |
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> home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is |
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> "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little |
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> motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. |
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> So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we |
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> test. |
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> Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new |
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> reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected |
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> final release date"? Counting lines of code or something? |
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> Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present |
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> expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. |
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> Thanks. |
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> davecode@××××××××××.net |
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> http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an |
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> unladen european swallow |
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You might want to take a look at Gentoo's Bugzilla charts and |
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statistics: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/report.cgi |
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For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for |
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new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is |
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very alive. |
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The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics |
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also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a |
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dying distro. |
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