Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, And first, thanks for the work done. I'd like to make a few comments about this Code of Conduct. Over the past years, Gentoo has been organised over a large part of paper-rules, and other theorical precepts. But human nature is just not theorical. And therefore, we have to constantly

Re: [gentoo-dev] Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-04 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, recruitment was too focused on technical skills Yes, this is my point of view too. It can even be discouraging to people wishing to help with gentoo. That's probably why it is so hard to renew developer pool. I have been involved in gentoo for nearly 5 years now (2 officialy), but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-04 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, recruitment was too focused on technical skills Yes, this is my point of view too. It can even be discouraging to people wishing to help with gentoo. That's probably why it is so hard to renew developer pool. I have been involved in gentoo for nearly 5 years now (2 officialy), but

[gentoo-dev] Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-04 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, Why do people keep repeating this myth? As kloeri pointed out, developer base keeps growing constantly. That's really a good news. And yo're right of course, developer base keeps growing. But... A problem remains : is a fresh developer as efficient as a guru devlopper ?. Of course, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hello everybody :) I'd like to argue about this problem, since my point of view slightly differs about this problem. I think that releasing installation media more often would make sense, more than in the case of stages. I wrote a small article a few weeks ago, about the Small Gentoo LiveCD

Re: [gentoo-dev] GeNUS : how I currently manage my gentoo network (200+ machines)

2006-10-25 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi guys (and girls ;) ), And sorry for the long delay of my answer, I was very busy in the last few days. I just cleaned up (a bit) and uploaded my script, with a set of fake configs, in a nice .tgz file (1). Feel free to contact me if something is not clear enough (high probability since I

[gentoo-dev] GeNUS : how I currently manage my gentoo network (200+ machines)

2006-10-21 Thread Hubert Mercier
Hi, When I recently officially joined the Gentoo Project, I had the idea to share a part of my work, in the way of a scripts set I've been working on for more than 2 years now, which I called GeNUS (Gentoo Network Update System). My lab and teaching department massively used Linux for 4