Alexandre Buisse kirjoitti: > Hi everyone, > > as everyone probably noticed, there is a current atmosphere of sinking ship, > with quite a lot of people leaving and many agreeing that gentoo is no fun > working on anymore. Before it's too late, I'd like to propose a big > reformation > that would help solve some of the issues we are currently having and, > hopefully, bring back some of the fun we all had developing and using this > distribution. >
I can say that inside all the teams I work with things are just fine and fun as ever. :) IMHO it's just this mailing list that is perceived rotten in some people's eyes. Only time time will if the ongoing changes will help. > > The idea is pretty simple: modularization. There is a core part, with a couple > hundred packages that are absolutely necessary to a system. Then we have a > hierarchy of overlays with additional ebuilds for people's need. Top-level > projects could look like: desktop, dev, business, embedded, misc. Then we > would have subprojects, e.g. multimedia, DE, games for desktop, multimedia > being itself subdivided in audio and video, and so on. This would get us a > tree of arbitrary depth, with development happening mostly in leaves. The > hierarchy would mostly serve as a classification tool, and projects would not > necessarily share resources, including devs, with their subprojects, neither > should they have decision power over them. > Splitting the tree is a nice idea but first we would need to solve the problems that have come up in previous threads about this some of which you outline later. > > By having everything as modular as possible, we also allow an easy fork of a > single project, for whatever reason. So if enough people think that mozilla is > being badly maintained by the current project and that people in it don't want > or can't apply their fixes, they can easily provide their own overlay with > better ebuilds. And if their version is indeed better, over time it will get > the official status and have superseeded smoothly the first project. Think of > paludis and pkgcore vs portage. > Hmm. Should I emerge mozilla-firefox from module A or module B. Both have web sites claiming theirs is better. Flame on. Maybe we should just focus on QA being able to kick out people who do a lousy job. Regards, Petteri
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