From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Euaex-0002e9-OW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:20:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k05JIjiQ003339; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:18:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k05JE2On014141 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:14:20 GMT Received: from d070237.adsl.hansenet.de ([80.171.70.237] helo=iglu.bnet.local) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EuaPB-0006oS-Sl for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:04:10 +0000 From: Carsten Lohrke To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:03:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <43B96D6D.8080107@gentoo.org> <20060105064956.GC14338@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart14209528.asIWLjpth3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601052004.03166.carlo@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 490f4cea-b66a-409b-8210-905a0ae78765 X-Archives-Hash: 4d0ed43ad093afb21ede8e7b481a9e42 --nextPart14209528.asIWLjpth3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:26, Duncan wrote: > This man speaks my mind. That's one of the things I'm worried about with > the Enterprise Gentoo thing, and why I think it will make a better > separate project than part of Gentoo itself. I agree mostly, too. Just that QA has more aspects than "cool nifty package= x=20 that has bleeding edge dep y, with dep y sitting due to QA concerns", to=20 quote Brian. A QA team can work concurrently to other subprojects of Gentoo= ,=20 spot testing ebuild quality, checking e.g. for correct dependencies and=20 licenses (I stumpled about four false ones the last few months) and a lot o= f=20 other things without slowing development down. It's a pity, that we don't=20 have an proactive QA team. The complaints about Gentoo having no direction, sound (at least in my ears= )=20 more like "Gentoo is not heading in the direction I want to have it." - so,= =20 attract developers who work with you on your goals (We don't have enough de= vs=20 anyways, ~10% unmaintained packages in the tree speak for themselves) withi= n=20 Gentoo. I for one can't say we haven't seen a lot of improvements in=20 different subprojects, just that it takes time. > see the history of the Panama canal for instance, but it takes a *LOT* o= f=20 work Odd comparison, having in mind how much lives it did cost. Carsten --nextPart14209528.asIWLjpth3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDvW2jVwbzmvGLSW8RAhZCAJwNJA0sPrHJfKg+2Jh150oRapeu+gCgghpW UaqlLQ3avS0uG4nwaIBmmuU= =ninf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart14209528.asIWLjpth3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list