On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:34 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > Here's one, very, very interesting proposals, under > serious consideration: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distributed_Gentoo > > > I'd be curious what the fine and wonderful folks at > gentoo_user think of this proposal. Old farts are > welcome to comment, even encourage to "constructively rant"....
Honestly, I think it is a bit optimistic, though something I'd love to see. I'm more of a fan of getting the new working before dismantling the old, and I'm not keen on proposals that start out with gutting what we already have before there is anything new to replace it. Burning bridges usually isn't wise. The optimistic bit is that the proposal is that the only part of Gentoo that would actually be developed centrally are the parts that almost nobody is working on today. That basically amounts to just having all the developers quit, and hoping that they all move on to work on overlays instead of moving on to something else. There are a lot of technical challenges in such an approach - supporting overlays isn't all that unlike trying to provide kernel internal API stability. I think it could be done better, but it would be a big change. IMHO it makes far more sense to make those changes and use them for our own internal benefit in the main repository, and THEN think about whether the main repository is still needed. -- Rich
