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 1FLXlb-0001Wu-6w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:42:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2L3g5wD031376; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:42:05 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2L3e99o014475 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:40:10 GMT Received: from zc184106.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([221.119.184.106] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FLXj7-0000bp-Ej for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:40:09 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC922200D73; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:40:11 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:40:11 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <441F73C2.5070809@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <441F73C2.5070809@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603211240.11345.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4ea6c33d-f607-45d7-ba2d-a74fa66e78c0 X-Archives-Hash: 0c0e87fd61baff918f1c4a2786eb9303 On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:32, Alec Warner wrote: > m h wrote: > > I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list. > > > > I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the > > people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros > > were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my > > observations from talking to people there). While I was there the > > person next to me starting hacking the ebuild classes to handles eggs > > (so he could emerge turbogears). I talked to at least 3 others who > > were running gentoo. I asked all of them if they had worked on > > portage. Most said "No, the code is a little scary". (I'll concur > > with that sentiment, as the code doesn't feel very pythonic). > > > > If you want to attract more developers (python people), a few things are needed: > > That depends on how they contribute, I personally don't want random > python master bob contributing pieces to portage itself. Portage things > are not necessarily as simple as people make them out to be. Even > developers who know the code well make mistakes in adding and removing > code. As solar once pointed out "the only man I trust to touch the > resolver is Jstubbs." I realize thats a bit elitest...but at the same > time...I am overly cautious ;) The resolver as it stands now is not overly difficult. One does really need to know it back to front though. I should really make splitting it out and documenting it my big project for 2.2. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list