Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave
> > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now.
> 
> I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly
> on its own.

How certain are you of this guess? How long is long enough? Mostly?

At the moment, it beats mostly on our efforts to it; and in the near
future, it'll need to adapt further to newer EAPIs as well as further
bugs and other complexities in the Portage trees. Otherwise you'll get
a lot of "we can't continue because they stopped developing Portage".

Hence that's why it comes up every now and then as a subject, hence
someone finally made the call to reinforcement, ...; so, it won't have
to continue beating on its own at all.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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