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Hi all, |
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Ok, here is the tenth rewrite of this email. Every time I write, it just |
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ends up being a rant about how many of the issues deal with two primary |
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problems: |
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1. Lack of developers to support packages. |
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2. Lack of some fundamental features in portage. |
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I'll address both of these from my perspective. Most of you probably |
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won't care, but here it goes anyhow. |
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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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Just the fact that webapp-config exists should explain my second point. |
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rant deleted ;) |
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Wendall |
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