Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 15:35 +0300 schrieb Markos Chandras: > On Monday 04 May 2009 14:50:56 Ferris McCormick wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 2009 04:34:20 -0400 > [..] > > I've been a developer a bit over 5 years. We know the problems and are > > working to fix them. > > > I am sure that you know them. But those problems are the reasons why more and > more developers are demotivated and leaving Gentoo. 'Fixing' those problems > should be a N1 priority on every gentoo council meeting until they are gone. > There is absolutely no point in trying to introduce new features and stuff > when > we are so understaffed. First we need to bring more people on Gentoo and keep > the current manpower motivated. When we are done with that, we can focus on > features :\
The point of most features is to make maintenance easier and reduce breakages at user-side which hopefully reduces the amount of bugs reported because of such breakages and keep our users happy and happy users are more likely to contribute or become devs when they see some progress. But you're right, we have to find the balance somehow... -- Tiziano Müller Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-z...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30
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