On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100 "Christopher O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a | weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly | newsletter (which currently seems to be lacking much useful | information). It would be great if we (the users) could find out | what's going on behind the scenes of our favourite distribution.
The problem with this is... Once someone says "we're working on $x", they're continuously pestered about it by users asking when it will be ready. Given how few of us are paid to work specific hours on Gentoo things, it's very easy for provisional release dates to be missed -- and when half of a developer's time is spent responding to questions about where $x is and why an early test of $x pulled out of a supposedly "not for end users" repo broke their system and the other half is spent writing status updates it's pretty much impossible to get anything out consistently. Hence why some of us don't announce non-trivial projects on public mailing lists, and instead keep any discussion on -core and sekrit IRC channels. That's how what's now known as eselect was developed, and it turned out far nicer than the XML-laden aborted gentoo-config project precisely because of the lack of end user 'input'. I mean, as a purely hypothetical example... Could you imagine just how many dumb feature requests, questions and requests for code from the unwashed masses someone would get if they admitted to having an early alpha of an alternative to Portage that didn't require Python? Having to deal with the noise would be more than enough to ensure that no more development would ever get done... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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