Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:59 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:10:35 +1000
> "Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 28 July 2017 8:44:20 PM AEST, "Andreas K. Huettel"
> > <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > That's not feasible. It would kill off any semi-professional or
> > > professional 
> > > Gentoo use, where a minimum of stability is required. 
> > > 
> > > (Try keeping ~10 machines on stable running without automation.
> > > That's already 
> > > quite some work. Now try the same with ~arch. Now imagine you're
> > > talking about 
> > > 100 or 1000 machines.)  
> > 
> > And further, try proposing that to management - that you'll be
> > managing hosts on a platform that has no "stable" to speak of.
> 
> The professional/management argument is silly. Most avoid Gentoo.
> Most companies, want to be able to pay for support. Not to mention
> certifications and such for those they hire. None of which Gentoo has
> regardless of stability. Not to mention reputation...
> 
> Those that tend to run Gentoo have their own interest in such.  I
> have
> seen many migrate from rather than to Gentoo. Large companies, who's
> names we would all know. One of the few left is Meetup.com. They run
> Gentoo as do some others. Seems Tivo does stuff with Gentoo, Google,
> Sony, etc. Some tend to hire Gentoo devs...
> 

Seriously, can you please stop your diatribes. I am so absolutely fed
up by your DoS'ing of the ML with your pointless points.