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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at |
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>> how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the |
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>> last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to |
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>> less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was |
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>> surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in |
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>> 2006. |
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> It could be a sign of the maturity of Gentoo. If there are less problems |
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> there will be less posts, since there are very few threads starting with |
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> "I did a world update today and everything worked perfectly". |
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Well, mostly I'd say that's true, certainly at the app level it's my |
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experience, but it seems to me that upgrades like Xorg haven't gone so |
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well this year. Maybe that's mostly an aberration driven by upstream |
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quality problems, but if my recollections are correct it wasn't only a |
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problem for me. |
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>> I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of |
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>> correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast |
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>> these days. |
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> Or they are spending more time developing and less time flaming one |
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> another these days? |
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Now that idea puts a smile on my face but unfortunately isn't |
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consistent with my personal view of bugs getting fixed. Maybe I just |
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got hit a bit harder but my memory of how long it took to get an |
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ebuild fixed in 2006 was considerably faster. Probably I'm mistaken. |
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For me 2009 has been a pretty disappointing year in terms of running |
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Gentoo and the first year in the last 5 or 6 where I spent ANY time |
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seriously looking around at other distros. Nothing struck me as being |
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good enough to warrant putting the time in to learn it. Gentoo is |
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still what I choose to run. I hope the stats are positive in nature |
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but I know of numerous pro-audio overlay users who have left the |
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Gentoo fold this year. (They don't seem any happier to me so I'm not |
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following...) I hope it's not happening too much in the more global |
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community. |
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Thanks for the responses! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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