Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/04/10 22:48, Roy Bamford wrote: > Open bugs per package and mean age of bugs per package come to mind. > Such per package metrics can be aggregated per herd, per project, the > whole of Gentoo or whatever. > > A reducing mean age of bugs and open bugs shows we are moving in the > right dir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04-04-2010 04:50, Dale wrote: > I felt sorry for the KDE folks when KDE4 was released. It just had > to be a nightmare to get all that in the tree at once. If they had > twice as many people working on it tho, it would have been easier. The > peo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.03 15:59, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: > > First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling > anything > is > > to measure it. > > So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think > of a useful al

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:22:06 +0200 "Tobias Scherbaum" wrote: > 5 years ago [...] constantly added [...] You need to clarify your metric. How are you defining constant? How often does a new document need to appear? What mostly happens is steady refinement and expansion of our existing docs, occ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 04/04/10 03:48, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 > Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > >> - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, >> but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but >> also to our docs-team) for years. Peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/04/2010 04:48 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum > wrote: > >> - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat >> maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both >> to our docs, but also to our docs-team) for years. P

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-04 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Joshua Saddler wrote lots of: > Thanks for sh**ting on my efforts. See, this is not about your personal efforts. I really do appreciate the work and time you invest in improving both the docs and PR. But otoh try to compare what the docs-team and PR did say 5 years ago and what they're doing today

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Dale
Alec Warner wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but also to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 > Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > >> - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, >> but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but >> also to our docs-team) for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, > but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but > also to our docs-team) for years. People are constantly asking for a > documentation wiki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 04/03/10 18:03, Alec Warner wrote: > - date of last commit: Gentoo is fast moving and packages that > haven't had commits since 200{4,5,6} are probably old, unmaintained > and may not even compile or run. > - date of last listed maintainer commit versus last commit: > Basically if the maintain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 05:38, Petteri Räty wrote: > My perception from the outside is also that it's sometimes hard to offer > help. So if we now that we are busy then let's try to embrace others > doing the work. This is also what I have observed. I think Gentoo needs appear to be much more focu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: > The above are all pretty easy to do with the data in the tree. Some > other useful ideas might be: > - compare open bugs for the package, when was the last bug for a > package closed (bugs data kinda sucks for this) An additional search: last touched by assignee between neve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: >> First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is >> to measure it. > > So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a > useful

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 15:40 +0100 schrieb Roy Bamford: > First, we need some metrics - the first step to controlling anything is > to measure it. So, how do you want to measure those metrics? I for one can't think of a useful algorithm which helps to identify understaffed or orphaned areas.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.04.03 10:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive > way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas > were > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. > > For example: [snip lots

hardened-sources development (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?)

2010-04-03 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 03.04.2010 11:26, schrieb "Paweł Hajdan, Jr.": > On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: >> Hell no, but ... >> >> We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. >> Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were >> users might get the idea Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 11:26 +0200 schrieb "Paweł Hajdan, Jr.": > > For example: > > - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental > > overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the > > hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist. > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Am Samstag, den 03.04.2010, 02:37 -0700 schrieb Brian Harring: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > Hell no, but ... > > Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational > subjects please ;) oh, well ;) > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:40:12AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > So - what to do now? To be honest - I have no real clue. But a first > > step might be to collect your opinions on where we do lack manpower and > > ideas on how to solve this problems. A Wiki might be fitting well for > > that t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure > there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no > offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their > spare time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... Then avoid feeding the distrowatch trolls w/ sensational subjects please ;) > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Petteri Räty
On 04/03/2010 12:16 PM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure > there are more people, but ) ... things are happening slowly (no > offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their > spare time to infra work!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 4/3/10 11:16 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > Hell no, but ... > > We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. > Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were > users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. > > For example: > - hardened-sou

[gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Tobias Scherbaum
Hell no, but ... We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way. Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead. For example: - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental overlay,