On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Possibly, but it be just another experiment waiting in a slowly > progressing queue; the one the CVS --> Git move is in. We have to be > fair, while experiments are neat and all that; they have hardly became > successful lately, it's as if our base is somewhat stable and we're > afraid to change it.
I think that could describe MANY of the issues we've been facing. Gentoo is a ricer distro that aims to be useful. There, I said it. :) There is a natural conflict between having everything "just work" and progress, especially when you don't have a lot of manpower. Many of our remaining cvs->git issues, for example, stem from our wanting to improve on the status quo. If we just wanted a git repo that devs can push to, we could have that today. We already have the infrastructure running our overlays, and we already have a git migration process that seems to be working fine. However, there are a lot of value-adds that will take time to implement (figuring out tree-signing, verification, if we can ditch changelogs and manifests, etc). There is also some back-end work that needs to be done where few have access to the code to work on it. I believe Robin announced that he was going to make that a big focus of his work in the coming months, for which we should be grateful. Rich
