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Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > Surely we have a container project now, but no |
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> > active cluster herd or project. |
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> In any FOSS activity the #1 issue tends to be people willing to do the |
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> work. If we have that, then there is no reason to let anything else |
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> stand in the way. There are devs who are willing to proxy-maintain, |
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> and if you just need a dev to put a page up on the wiki to call it a |
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> project I'm sure somebody would be willing... Rich |
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Well well well. Thank you for standing up. I'm going to privately |
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work on this (cluster folks, java folks and science folks) whilst |
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your team of devs figures out the final configuration of |
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devs/projects/bug-wranglers. If you guys are successful in pulling this off, |
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I have |
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noticed several corporations with many gentoo-java-ebuilds that might |
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throw a few crumbs our way. Java has sunken to such a low level on |
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gentoo, that companies that use Java && Gentoo rarely bother with |
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contributing back. I cannot speak for them, but I know they watch |
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and listen from time to time. Java is every bit as big and important |
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as python is, from a worldly perspective. Gentoo_ers that wish to |
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be relevant, cannot merely wish this away. Java is a fundamental, enabling |
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technology and it should be robustly supported by those within gentoo |
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that care (Despite anything Whoracle does). Yes I am stepping up for this |
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need, mostly because it is in my critical path now. I guess I'm acting |
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like a dev now? Cursed-Beloved? |
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I'm most willing to support others that want to pursue the cluster work that |
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is needed. I shall give them every opportunity to lead (those of us newer to |
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the cluster arena). But in the end, I'm about getting the work done one way |
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or another. |
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I do appreciate you and Michael for your efforts on this and other |
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gentoo issues. I'm trying to be "collegial" but, I have my viking |
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heretical issues, like some other over_achievers we all know..... |
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One way or another we'll have a robust gentoo cluster offering; I'm just not |
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sure how long it will take, but we are going to have some fun! |
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Maybe we'll run cinelerra/blender on the gentoo clusters and build some |
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"anime" comics of the gentoo dev characters? Clustering will be |
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a blast! There is one who has done amazing things with clustering |
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codes and anime on gentoo clusters already; |
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but he remains aloof from gentoo. |
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He is also quite young. |
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thx, |
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James |
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