Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:16:32AM +0200, Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
> - Infra: One might get the idea our Infra team is just Robin (yeah, sure
> there are more people, but ....) ... things are happening slowly (no
> offend - I fully understand that those few can't dedicate more of their
> spare time to infra work!), take overlays.g.o migration, Bugzie-3
> migration and so on as an example.
- Presently in the infra team and active on a day-to-day basis:
darkside
ford_prefect
halcy0n
idl0r
robbat2
- In the infra team and active several times/month:
fox2mike
kingtaco
ramereth
solar
armin76

Problems in infra:
- lack of communication and perceived transparency
	- We'd like to open read-only access to our Nagios soon...
- lack of perceived progress
	- The perceived big ticket items appear to move very slowly, because
	  they are much lower priority than day-to-day running of infra.

I do have an announcement to make in the next day or 3 about some infra
stuff that's going on, because it's going to affect every developer.

Question for you there, you said 'overlays.g.o migration'. What
migration? It moved to the "new" hardware more than a year ago.

> - Website redesign - we had a contest some years ago, got a winner,
> someone started to adapt the design and somewhat that project fall
> asleep.
The guy that was doing the redesign changes vanished for a long time,
he's been around again lately however.

> So - what to do now? To be honest - I have no real clue. But a first
> step might be to collect your opinions on where we do lack manpower and
> ideas on how to solve this problems. A Wiki might be fitting well for
> that task *cough*. A next step might be to discuss every identified
> problem and discuss our options and ideas how to improve the situation. 
Discussion on wiki has been going on for a while, I'll come, in a couple
of months probably, but I still haven't heard anything of my call for
people that were willing to do the work of editors and spam removal.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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