From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmIHS-0001BB-Nr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:24:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BA45E07BE; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D082EE07BE for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD1F6733D for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:24:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.724 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.724 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.125, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8ne0P160yMck for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA665672DC for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MmIHC-00063Y-Lt for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:23:46 +0200 Received: from 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([64.201.202.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:23:46 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic by 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:23:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:24:02 -0600 Message-ID: <20090911202402.19ae0319@gentoo.org> References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_//cl9jFpT_ci7r8NWaB1L0gx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7ab1b36c-2912-4295-b029-1a42e808202f X-Archives-Hash: afa8e87ab339e7339ebeab304acd3ca3 --Sig_//cl9jFpT_ci7r8NWaB1L0gx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places > people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides > Wikpedia and ${distro}.org. >=20 > The freshness of these 200 packages have influence on how people > perceive Gentoo on DistroWatch. While the tree as a whole is what we > should keep as up to date as possible keeping these 200 packages (list > further down) up to date can therefore be of particular importance. Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. Also, screw DW. --=20 fonts, Character is what you are in the dark. gcc-porting, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 --Sig_//cl9jFpT_ci7r8NWaB1L0gx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqrBkcACgkQiqiDRvmkBmIu7wCg1rSZZFMZnAb57TSC+xAu2eol rhYAmwZbEwQ+UEyKv5MABmV/RupWQLE+ =S7fO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_//cl9jFpT_ci7r8NWaB1L0gx--