Mike Frysinger wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > Gentoo dev list to see.
Gentoo has been missing some kind of direction/goal for some time now. Looking back at the last two years, what are the major changes/accomplishments that we have done? Granted, I know there has been great strides in improvement in some things, but I really wonder about any ground breaking enhancements. Since the council is the closest representation to a leader we have, I'd like to ask if they can come up with some kind of global goals for 2006 and beyond. You don't need to come up with goals by this meeting if you haven't had time, but at least by the February meeting. Each group can have their own goals, but we lack any overall binding goals or direction. We've brought on numerous devs in the past year, and I have yet to see a huge improvement in QA or anything else. Numbers aren't everything. If anything, it makes it harder to maintain good QA. There's a lot of people out there frustrated with Gentoo because of the lack of QA and direction. Package foo changes a bunch of config locations, package bar gets upgraded and causes a bunch of QA nightmares. At least from an admin point of view, Gentoo has gotten harder to maintain. Granted, thats a question for Gentoo itself. Who exactly are we catering to? Power users? New users? We can't satisfy everyone out there and need to draw a line of how much we'll devote to keeping the new user from destroying their system, etc. I'm not sure of the exact solution. Its just been pretty frustrating lately hearing folks complain about this and that when I know that we could do so much better. Maybe we're just happy with being where we're at. I know I'm not. There's a niche that Gentoo fits really well and I think we should focus on perfecting that niche instead of trying to be better than distroA or distroB. Ok, thats all my ranting for today. Hopefully I didn't start off the next world flamewar :-) Cheers- -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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