Natanael Copa wrote: > Because of gentoo devs always seems to fight? > > You don't have to fight. > Its funny, I use gentoo much more that FreeBSD, I'm a freebsd port > maintainer, but nothing for Gentoo (well, im an active bugreporter...) > > When I submit a fix/version bumb (I submit as "maintainer update") to > freebsd ports, its normally committed within hours, even if its not a > popular port. When I submit fixes for packages in Gentoo bugzilla it get > stuck for months. They must have done something right. > I don't know anything about freebsd, but I think they have a lot less packages than us.
Since we have a vast territory to cover with just 200 (semi-)active developers, there are portions of the tree neglected by the dev corpus. The solution is quite simple: new devs assigned to those part of the tree. The only problem is that is very hard to find motivated peeps. As a guy that maintains stuff for which I don't have the slightest interest (other than serving Gentoo community, of course), I find the "let the others do the job" attitude pretty infuriating.
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