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Hi Wendall! |
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> 1. Lack of developers to support packages. |
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I'm pretty new on the web-apps team so it's hard for me to really |
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judge the past years but currently I do not have the impression that |
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there is an extreme lack of developers on the team. Current number of |
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open bugs is pretty low (thanks to Renat). |
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I feel that our current discussion is more concerned with quality |
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rather than man power. Both are certainly connected but I feel that |
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the new overlay on Stuarts server also helps in getting valuable |
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additional input from the outside. |
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So I think the current question is more about what level of security |
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we actually want to keep in the main tree. |
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> I have been trying to find the time to become a Gentoo dev for a while |
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> now. Stuart was kind enough to offer mentoring me. However, I often feel |
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> overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things I need to know that I won't |
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> ever work with. I really have no need to know about compile issues with |
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> php or apache, other than reporting bugs on them, to be able to support |
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> a few web-apps. I have enough knowledge of several languages to have an |
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> idea of the nature of a certain bug, but am more skilled with high level |
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> scripting languages like perl, php, python, etc. However, I feel that |
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> what I'm getting myself into isn't what I'd like to do at all. I am |
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> fully qualified to maintain any of the current CMS systems in the tree. |
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> I have a working knowledge of the systems, have even personally written |
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> some of the code. However, to become a dev, I'd have to work with |
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> packages I don't even use. Not a very good way to attract developers or |
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> maintainers. |
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Hm, looks different from my perspective. My experience is |
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rather recent since I joined the team two weeks ago. I'm also mainly |
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developing in the P-league and barely know C. But this was not |
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required at all. While the two quizzes needed some broader knowledge |
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of portage related stuff it was actually useful to collect the answers |
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to the questions and learn from that. It required no major studying |
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though ;) |
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It took quite a while until the whole process was finished but on the |
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other hand I think this ensures that you don't get developers on the |
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team that will leave two weeks later. And if you wrote ebuilds for two |
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years it does not really matter if it takes some months to get on the |
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team. |
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So I'm not quite sure I understand what actually prevents you from |
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joining the team. |
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> Just the fact that webapp-config exists should explain my second point. |
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> rant deleted ;) |
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Don't think it's a valid point to expect that portage should do what |
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webapp-config does. There is certainly some overlap but there are also |
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some important differences. |
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Best regards |
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Gunnar |
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Gunnar Wrobel Gentoo Developer |
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