[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

[James]

hasufell <hasufell <at> gentoo.org> writes:



> Already doing so  https://github.com/hasufell/games-overlay
> and that's where I will update ebuilds, not in the tree. And I don't
> care to get any of that into the tree.

OK.


> People are scared of other gentoo-like distros/PMs. Exherbo is evil,
> paludis is evil, sabayoon is evil, ...

I agree, there is much resistence and calcification deep in the ranks
of gentoo.


> I've already tried contributing to exherbo. They are technically ahead
> of us in some non-trivial areas, but I don't think they have solved the
> contribution problem. Sure, they are more distributed and have gerrit
> etc, but their review workflow goes more the way "make a high-quality
> user-overlay and then we will review it once and add it to our page".


As a young distro, maybe that's all the man_hours they have for
outside packages right now?


> They don't care too much about themed and clearly scoped overlays and
> about the difference of 'modular' and 'fragmented'.
> 200 guys pushing into 200 repositories without _regular_ reviews (not
> just a "gentoo dev" or "high quality" overlay badge) is not much
> different to what gentoo does.

Is this (above) aimed at Exherbo or Arch?


> Arch is neither interesting from the technical nor from the workflow
> standpoint, IMO.

It has been around for a while.



OK so keep in mind if you are successful at what you set up (your overlay
++) with gentoo, I'd be interested to know the details and maybe I'll move
my codes to a similar structure; mostly java and science/math codes....

Drop me private email, or keep me informed whatever your chosen information
dispersement is (a blog? etc)  as your code development mechanisms evolve.


sincerely,
James