On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:50 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > My concern is beyond me. As I stated I know enough about what to expect IF > I > use sunrise. But many do not and with it becoming official people figure > it's gentoo and when it breaks Gentoo suffers. Gentoo has a reputation as a > good solid, stable distro. As user and big fan of Gentoo I'm concerned - why > couldn't sunrise have stayed unoffical like BMG. Why does it have to be > official? Gentoo can choose to do what it feels is right and I will do the > same.
BMG has, from day 1, been marginalised in the Gentoo community. I always fancied that they should've been folded into the larger Gentoo projects and become what Sunrise is today. The way I read you, your fear is based on the possibility of some future perception by an unknown number of people. Sunrise's idea is that stuff gets checked and re-checked and remains accessible -- have you read through their site and their commit histories and changesets? They're not exactly dawdling. As for Gentoo's reputation, I'm actually pleasantly surprised to hear it characterised that way :) If it has that reputation, then it will actually take a lot to break that. I'm surprised that ~keywords didn't already break it. I agree that the official portage tree is a QA nightmare. Sunrise seems to be nipping that nightmare for a future date -- ie by allowing people to commit and perform peer reviews, they're grooming the next generation of developers to look at QA from the outset, instead of as an afterthought. > I answered only because someone asked for user's concerns well this is mine > and you all can do with the input as you please without any hard feelings on > my part. It's an exchange of ideas, there shouldn't be hard feelings on anyone's part. -- Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Foundation / Gentoo Linux -- [email protected] mailing list
