Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-06 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/04/10 22:48, Roy Bamford wrote: Open bugs per package and mean age of bugs per package come to mind. Such per package metrics can be aggregated per herd, per project, the whole of Gentoo or whatever. A reducing mean age of bugs and open bugs shows we are moving in the right

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Joshua Saddler wrote lots of: Thanks for sh**ting on my efforts. See, this is not about your personal efforts. I really do appreciate the work and time you invest in improving both the docs and PR. But otoh try to compare what the docs-team and PR did say 5 years ago and what they're doing today

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/04/2010 04:48 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but also to our docs-team)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 04/04/10 03:48, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but also to our docs-team) for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:22:06 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: 5 years ago [...] constantly added [...] You need to clarify your metric. How are you defining constant? How often does a new document need to appear? What mostly happens is steady refinement and expansion of our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.03 15:59, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is to measure it. So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a useful algorithm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04-04-2010 04:50, Dale wrote: I felt sorry for the KDE folks when KDE4 was released. It just had to be a nightmare to get all that in the tree at once. If they had twice as many people working on it tho, it would have been easier. The people

[gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. For example: - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. For example: - hardened-sources

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 12:16 PM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their spare time to infra work!),

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Hell no, but ... Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational subjects please ;) We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their spare time to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:40:12AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: So - what to do now? To be honest - I have no real clue. But a first step might be to collect your opinions on where we do lack manpower and ideas on how to solve this problems. A Wiki might be fitting well for that task

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 02:37 -0700 schrieb Brian Harring: On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Hell no, but ... Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational subjects please ;) oh, well ;) We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 11:26 +0200 schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.: For example: - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist. I recently

hardened-sources development (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?)

2010-04-03 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 03.04.2010 11:26, schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.: On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.03 10:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. For example: [snip lots of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is to measure it. So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a useful algorithm which helps to identify understaffed or orphaned areas.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is to measure it. So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: The above are all pretty easy to do with the data in the tree. Some other useful ideas might be: - compare open bugs for the package, when was the last bug for a package closed (bugs data kinda sucks for this) An additional search: last touched by assignee between never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 05:38, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: My perception from the outside is also that it's sometimes hard to offer help. So if we now that we are busy then let's try to embrace others doing the work. This is also what I have observed. I think Gentoo needs appear

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 18:03, Alec Warner wrote: - date of last commit: Gentoo is fast moving and packages that haven't had commits since 200{4,5,6} are probably old, unmaintained and may not even compile or run. - date of last listed maintainer commit versus last commit: Basically if the maintainer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but also to our docs-team) for years. People are constantly asking for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddlernightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaumdertobi...@gentoo.org wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any