> > So, what would need to happen for one of these projects to take off > > would be one or more people to be in charge of it and organize it, and > > they recruit as many people as possible to work on the project along > > with them? > > The real blocker for features that I'd like Gentoo to support is Portage. > There is only 1½ people working on it and changing anything in it is hard > because Portage is a horrible mess. There's plenty of activity in the tree > but new desired features cannot be used in the tree until Portage supports > them. It also doesn't make matters better that over the years all sorts of > weird hacks (that now have to be supported) have been added to the tree > instead of waiting for proper solutions. Most people who are capable of > helping to improve Portage just don't want to touch it.
Would you say that portage is the main block in the way of Gentoo's continued progress? > > Does that recruitment generally take the form of volunteers finding the > > project as opposed to the project finding volunteers? Any light to shed on > > this process for me? > > If there's one thing we definitely don't need it's more clueless people who > become developers just because they claim they want to do something. Being > stalled is better than major screw ups that hurt everyone and than moving in > the wrong direction. I don't have aspirations of becoming a developer if that's what you mean. Thanks though. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
