Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

[Richard Broersma Jr]

> On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote:
> > I
> > personally still love Gentoo.
>
> What's the problem then? :)

Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in our general knowledge of
Linux all thanks to the gentoo user guides/howto(s) and the time spent installing gentoo on our
servers?

I really benefited from the "cookbook" approach that the user manual takes.  It gently opened my
eyes to many lower level processes that were always shielded from my eyes on many other distro's
that I have used.  For this reason Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart. :o)

However, I believe that gentoo's health is completely dependent on the number of talented
developers that devote much of their personal time refining and debugging portage and it vast
software tree.  IMHO, if we would like to see Gentoo maintain healthy growth, more of us happy
<less experienced> users should find ways to assisting the core developers by relieving them from
the more mundane & redementry tasks.  I am sure that the portage tree is already large enough that
it is a daunting challenge for the limited number of developers to maintain it and keep it upto
date with new software releases.

Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we would do well to spend a few
hours each week answering that call.

Well that's my two cents anyway.

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.
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