On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100 > Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave > > > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now. > > > > I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly > > on its own. > > How certain are you of this guess? How long is long enough? Mostly? > > At the moment, it beats mostly on our efforts to it; and in the near > future, it'll need to adapt further to newer EAPIs as well as further > bugs and other complexities in the Portage trees. Otherwise you'll get > a lot of "we can't continue because they stopped developing Portage". > > Hence that's why it comes up every now and then as a subject, hence > someone finally made the call to reinforcement, ...; so, it won't have > to continue beating on its own at all. > > As usual, it is nigh impossible to force people to work on a specific project. I would encourage radhermit to ask for assistance if he thinks he needs it. dol-sen asked because he is working on a bunch of projects and knows he cannot maintain portage by himself. Even if the council were to decree that portage be frozen, I doubt that would actually halt contributions. -A > -- > With kind regards, > > Tom Wijsman (TomWij) > Gentoo Developer > > E-mail address : [email protected] > GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D > GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D >
