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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GVQtJ-0000HZ-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:55:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k95As2d9025733; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:54:03 GMT Received: from MIUMMR0MT09.um.ced.h3g.it ([62.13.171.111]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k95ApogQ019490 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:51:50 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (miumgu0vp03.um.ced.h3g.it [10.216.57.163]) by MIUMMR0MT09.um.ced.h3g.it (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ANM04722; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:51:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:52:14 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide Message-ID: <20061005125214.00b6cbe7@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <3b09e8e90610040844y400d744bpb3c4e4b41b56fdeb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061004070014.843d851d.tcort@gentoo.org> <4523BA19.30208@gentoo.org> <20061004171603.133e46a5@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <3b09e8e90610040844y400d744bpb3c4e4b41b56fdeb@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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="Sig_EniaSA=adMmJQwAA7y8Yxc2"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e8e4a6e0-562d-4f5e-842e-2bdcb939780a X-Archives-Hash: 7bc7fcbde038adb6c8bc71db586e7299 --Sig_EniaSA=adMmJQwAA7y8Yxc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:07 -0400 "Thomas Cort" wrote: > On 10/4/06, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:41:45 -0400 > > Alec Warner wrote: >=20 > > My view is that while they're being actively supported, there's no > > reason to remove them. Granted their mostly SpanKY's babies, but so > > what? >=20 > My view is that currently we cannot offer the same level of support > for the minority arches as the majority arches because we don't have > enough people involved. We don't need to. Gentoo isn't just one single thing, and I see no reason to require that all projects and arches offer the same level of support. Each project and arch can make their own determination about what level of support they can and will offer. Embedded users, for example, are generally more technically-oriented to start with so need far less support than, say, non-technical x86 users. > I think that spreading the developers too thin > leads to conflict and burnout. Look at NetBSD and debian. They are > trying to be everything for everyone. How is that working for them, > how is it working for us? I think we should be more focused, but > that's just my opinion. Minority arches don't affect devs who aren't interested in them, so they have no impact on how spread out the developers are. Effectively you're saying that those involved in the minority arches should stop messing about with that and commit all their Gentoo time to mainline activities, which is obviously not sensible. --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_EniaSA=adMmJQwAA7y8Yxc2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJOPe9G2S8dekcG0RAsr+AKDo2uqNUBLP1lsjD6PYCpBdw9H84wCgogV5 sejRRB5xiw7MwRNxnWUZgFw= =wsa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_EniaSA=adMmJQwAA7y8Yxc2-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list