Here's a random unsorted list of things that it would make sense to be upset about. Some issues that people have successfully ignored for a few years ...
In no way exhaustive list, feel free to remember a dozen things I forgot ;) (If you suggest other things please try to offer constructive criticism, i.e. possible strategies to fix issues ... whining by itself is not very useful) * stable genkernel still doesn't enable all useful kernel features e.g. accounting statistics are absent, so iotop doesn't work ootb See for example #442936 (from 2012 ?!) Fix: Stable newer versions * stage3 still enables bindist in make.conf See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473332 Causes random breakage of tools like wget/curl, etc. Fix: poke releng until they stop being silly * AutoRepoman catches on average maybe 2 user-visible breakages. Mostly removing stable on HPPA ;) Fix: Make repoman faster (tree-wide scans take ~2 CPU-hours) Fix: Remind people that using repoman is not optional * Portage is too slow On 'small' hardware emerge -upNDv @world can take enough time to make updates prohibitive - on an 800Mhz machine it took me about 3 days to figure out a solution to some silly blockers due to the very slow change test cycle Fix: Do some profiling and un-refactoring to remove useless code Fix: Set up a reference system (CI) to catch future regressions * Stage3 archives are too fat See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531632 We're now shipping three python versions and glib for extra fun! Fix: Motivate releng to stop being silly * AutoRepoman catches issues, but no one but me seems to care Fix: Remind people of http://packages.gentooexperimental.org/repoman-current-issues.txt Fix: Make it yell louder? It currently reports on IRC to #gentoo-{bugs,qa} * AutoRepoman still runs on my hardware Fix: Remind infra of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484064 * mail archives have been broken since 2012 Fix: get infra to either fix it, or provide enough information that it can be fixed. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424647#c27 * git.overlays.gentoo.org only partially functional (web interface / cgit down) * euscan doesn't run on infra hardware Fix: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453886 * libreoffice-bin isn't built on infra hardware Fix: Remind infra to set up a build environment for that * Some stable bugs are left alone for months See e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485632 Fix: Have more people work on stable bugs Fix: Motivate people to file more stable bugs (continuous updates) * Updates from very old installs are still difficult Fix: Collect stage3 archives and tree snapshots maybe every 3 months apart then update from one snapshot to the next. Possibly fix upgrade bugs retroactively in the snapshots and automate the process It'd be nice to have such things fixed, but alas, many rely on someone else to respond. And for some there's no 'easy' solution. But they can all be fixed. Let's not tolerate mediocrity. Take care, Patrick
