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 1Mn1aN-0006fo-Dq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23BCFE08FA; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0188FE08FA for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A6564E95 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.912 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.912 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.312, 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 bgY3M3Lrnrdv for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:30 +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 6A93866AAE for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mn1a7-00059t-SH for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:46:19 +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 ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:46:19 +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 ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:46:19 +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: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:46:38 -0600 Message-ID: <20090913204638.7e29eb2b@gentoo.org> References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <20090911202402.19ae0319@gentoo.org> <4AAB90E6.40604@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_/lSmHN7vjXLkYRoVoZm08_78"; 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: f9c75ffd-7bec-4c55-b966-d41b06d2c6ab X-Archives-Hash: 7a897a13fcb2f015269a452d51d62c5d --Sig_/lSmHN7vjXLkYRoVoZm08_78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:15:34 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. >=20 > I was afraid it could be read in such a way. Handing out fake version > numbers would be much easier, wouldn't it? I want every single package > int he tree to be stable, up to date and polished. But as our resources > are limited let's focus on packages that are most important first. That's actually what I meant by gaming the system. We could keep those particular packages up to the minute, but it wouldn't reflect the state of our distro as a whole. It's a false metric and I don't see the advantage in pandering to it. It's much more important that our packages actually work together than have the highest numbers. > > Also, screw DW. >=20 > I'd be interested to hear details about your attitude off-list. Sorry, bad way of putting what Jes=C3=BAs later said; we're not in competit= ion. DistroWatch scores are the least of our worries. --=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_/lSmHN7vjXLkYRoVoZm08_78 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqtrpUACgkQiqiDRvmkBmIPsQCfZoLxqR5VsEkD9F2RKdzfVIhZ T7cAoMHb0vJKWozVUDrEPNn3LqzN1q61 =HsHx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/lSmHN7vjXLkYRoVoZm08_78--