On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:58:03PM +0300, Consus wrote: > In all honesty, is Gentoo dead? Gentoo-Dev is filled with passive > aggression (though being developers-only mailing list), Github bot warns > you that contributing new packages to the main repo is low priority and > probably no one will help you, and even distribution kernel is not an > official thing, but a desperate attempt of someone to fix things.
Considering there have been almost 6000 commits to the repository in the last 21 days, I would question that claim. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/threads/2020-04/ gentoo-dev isn't really filled with any sort aggression. There is healthy debate, especially considering the recent switch to Python 3.7 and masking of most 3.6-only packages, but that rigorous scrutiny is a requirement for such a strong distro. There have, of course, been exceptions, such as when bman went on an "unsanctioned Python crusade" (removal of all Python 2 packages; not the greatest of ideas), however in general, the Gentoo community is one of the most alive and healthy I've seen in any Linux distribution. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6e8d816eb0125d6581be70f575272653 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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