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On Saturday 10 May 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> 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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The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its |
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own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo |
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users) had mistaken Gentoo for yet-another-binary-distro. Having a user |
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friendly website that also caters to the needs of newcomers to the Gentoo |
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scene, requires that the key features and benefits of Gentoo are easily |
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visible/accessible. Not many people will navigate to hidden Statistics pages |
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to draw their own conclusions. These could be users that one day prove |
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valuable contributors. I suggest that we spring clean the website and |
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consider our new visitors needs at the same time (plus things like the much |
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asked for Documentation search field?). ;-) |
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Just my 2c's. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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