I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list. I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my observations from talking to people there). While I was there the person next to me starting hacking the ebuild classes to handles eggs (so he could emerge turbogears). I talked to at least 3 others who were running gentoo. I asked all of them if they had worked on portage. Most said "No, the code is a little scary". (I'll concur with that sentiment, as the code doesn't feel very pythonic).
If you want to attract more developers (python people), a few things are needed: * Portage documentation. How the innards work. There is very little docs/comments in the portage code * Unittests - without this how do I know that my change to portage didn't break someone else's corner case * Refactoring into a more pythonic style. Note that this is pretty hard without unittests. Take this as a grain of salt, from an observer, who believes that there are a lot of potential users (who know python), and who could easily contribute, if the bar was lowered a bit. (Or steps were provided to reach a little higher ;)) -matt -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
