Re: [gentoo-dev] State of Developement

["Preston A. Elder" <prez@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 26 August 2002 02:43 am, Paul wrote:
> 	I have noticed that the numbers assigned to each of my
> new bug reports has been advancing at such a high rate over time,
> that I am given to wonder if the developers can keep up. My
> ebuilds especially have seemed to languish lately.
As more users (especially inexperienced and bug-happy ones) use gentoo, more 
bugs get raised, often times to be marked as duplicates or user error.

As for the ebuilds languisihing longer, there are two reasons for this.  
First, we try to give bugs higher priority ... the whole 'clean up your house 
as is before taking in more mess', and
Second, we're gearing up to release gentoo 1.4, which means theres basically 
no new packages being added to the tree unless we want to justify it to 
Daniel Robbins (which makes sense, you dont want to keep introducing more 
problems when your trying to stabalize a release).

> 	How are you guys doing? Do you have any areas that you
> would like us to focus on? (eg. QA) I could squeeze out ebuilds
> regularly, but I tend to wait on those in the pipeline.
re: where to focus on, thats not my domain, however documentation is ALWAYS 
appreciated (developers hate documenting things ;).  As for the new ebuilds, 
you can submit them to bugzilla, just dont expect them to be added to the 
system before 1.4 is released.

> 	I havent checked, but is gentoo-core still closed?
yes, it is.

> Could it be read-only, maybe only in digest form? The more
> I know about where this project is going, the more motivated
> I am to help, rather than say, sitting back on my haunches
> and waiting. (something I have been unable to do so far:)
Why not email Daniel directly about this :)

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