On Wednesday, 04. October. 2006 13:00, Thomas Cort wrote: > There have been a number of developers leaving Gentoo in the past 6 > months as well as a number of news stories on DistroWatch, Slashdot, > LWN, and others about Gentoo's internal problems. No one seems to have > pin pointed the problem, but it seems glaringly obvious to me. We > simply don't have enough developers to support the many projects that > we have. Here are my ideas for fixing this problem: > > - Cut the number of packages in half (put the removed ebuilds in > community run overlays)
We (treecleaner, poke Alec about that) are currently working on something alike. A user / Alec suggested putting removed packages into a seperate overlay, so the ebuilds would be still accessible (without using sources.gentoo.org and putting it into a local overlay). > - Formal approval process (or at least strict criteria) for adding > new packages > > - Make every dev a member of at least 1 arch team I think that would solve the understaffing of some of the arch teams (iirc amd64 and x86 are having enough devs / at's right now) > - Double the number of developers with aggressive recruiting Before you do that, you'll have to double the number of recruiters. Otherwise you're creating a pretty bottleneck. > - No competing projects > > - New projects must have 5 devs, a formal plan, and be approved by the > council > > - Devs can only belong to 5 projects at most Reducing the stress on people ? No clue what that would solve. > - Drop all arches and Gentoo/Alt projects except Linux on amd64, > ppc32/64, sparc, and x86 I guess at least Diego and Fabian are going to yell at you right now. > - Reduce the number of projects by eliminating the dead, weak, > understaffed, and unnecessary projects > > - Project status reports once a month for every project That would be great, but to whom should they report ? The council ? Or via -core ? -- Christian Heim <phreak at gentoo.org> GPG key ID: 9A9F68E6 Fingerprint: AEC4 87B8 32B8 4922 B3A9 DF79 CAE3 556F 9A9F 68E6 Your friendly treecleaner/mobile/kernel/vserver/openvz monkey -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
