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 1GJpDH-0003ik-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:28:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k83ARnTb025091; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:27:49 GMT Received: from rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k83AQ2E7005993 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:26:03 GMT Received: from localhost ([190.37.152.50]) by rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id k83AQ1LC029937 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2006 06:26:01 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GJpAr-0003xH-B3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:25:57 -0400 Message-ID: <44FAADB4.5060806@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:25:56 -0400 From: Luis Francisco Araujo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060903) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet References: <44ECF00D.7050107@gentoo.org> <7573e9640609022011m765331ccx52eb96c841a5546f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640609022011m765331ccx52eb96c841a5546f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on 10.128.131.69 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: c3d6fced-8fa5-4f3c-abbe-543f93931085 X-Archives-Hash: d6a696031cb1109d99e86615ded18266 Richard Fish wrote: > On 9/2/06, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: >> I suppose that there is a way that Gentoo can follow, only that its >> leaders, >> developers and users need to see it clearly. Is there a publicly visible >> page that contains current goals for new releases? Where all sub-project >> leaders could add their own goals, coherent with the general vision? >> I couldn't find it, but maybe I haven't looked in the right places? > > The problem I see is that for Gentoo the releases are not really > useful milestones for most projects. A release is really significant > for a few core packages, but what is the real downside for users if > Xorg 7.2 is stabilized one week after a release? Outside of the fact > that they have to compile it themselves instead of using the GRP > package...not much that I see. That is not a problem. That is a feature. -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list