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Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Otherwise, I'm interested in what your definition of "forward" is. |
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> How about anything? More than nothing. |
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I'd agree with this. I think gentoo is having growing pains in directions |
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the (gentoo) pundits are not really interested in. Take for example JAVA. |
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IMHO java going open source is the biggest thing to hit linux for some time |
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now. Eclipse is the defacto development environment of the future |
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for many, many things. Sure as an old timer, I can use the CLI |
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pretty well, but Eclipse Europa (3.3) has been out for a while |
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and yet, nothing in Gentoo. |
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I stumbled across a bug where they devs are thinking about deprecating |
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JFFNMS becuse it is broken. JFFNMS is the best network management package |
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available to opensource (period), yet it tumbles from dev to dev to |
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obscurity? |
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I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation |
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page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20).... |
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As a 47 year old computer scientist, this the what turns off so many people |
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form helping gentoo...... |
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That said, if you have the stomach, becoming a dev or taking care of |
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just a few niche packages would go a long way to improving gentoo. |
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(btw) I have figured out the trivial things with jffnms and the install |
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doc and play to just build an overlay and maintain my own how to page. |
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I'm tired of the snotty attitude of some the the devs. They ask everyone |
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to participate in bugday, but refuse to let somebody manage a package |
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they want to deprecate....? |
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stupid, real stupid. |
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that is exactly what kills gentoo, imho. |
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James |
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