On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is > "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little > motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. > > So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we > test. > > Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new > reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected > final release date"? Counting lines of code or something? > > Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present > expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. > > Thanks. > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow >
You might want to take a look at Gentoo's Bugzilla charts and statistics: http://bugs.gentoo.org/report.cgi For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is very alive. The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a dying distro.
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