From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhORJ-0004qh-SX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:21:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CAD6E0A0B; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6115CE0A0B for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37899E362D for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:21:07 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: xSJ8LnxB+JVdxDDTWMNATi2Su8yFYAf9vgrp3vkevyz6 1207225266 Received: from [192.168.188.1] (82-71-33-97.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.71.33.97]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A366827225 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47F4CBAC.4090609@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:21:00 +0100 From: Mike Auty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080330) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April References: <20080401092610.EEF7467349@smtp.gentoo.org> <47F3F098.1050508@gentoo.org> <47F3F860.6080200@gentoo.org> <1207182913.16176.49.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> In-Reply-To: <1207182913.16176.49.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 468a4b95-128b-4560-833f-7d1305a3db48 X-Archives-Hash: e2db0915c747d829d7085b8edac6a371 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: | It's about quality not quantity maybe? It's about both, and getting the balance right is effectively what this boils down to (as do many discussions on -dev). There's those devs who want high levels of QA and those devs that want the latest/obscure/testing/rare packages. Generally the two sides play oppose each other. Personally I think having both super-devs (who do lots of commits, care deeply about QA and know their stuff intimately) and official-contributor type devs (those who maintain a few specialist packages when they can) is a good idea. Giving the undertakers more work by giving them more reports of potentially lax devs and requiring them to investigate seems a little wasteful to me. I'd far rather the undertakers spent the extra time on positive contributions to the actual distribution (rather than it's administration). So the still unanswered question appears to be, would we like Gentoo to have fewer packages and less choice but greater QA, stability and a feel of professionalism, or would we like to have more packages and choice but a worse QA record, make some mistakes, and have a more community-based feel? If you're going to try to answer this question please be delicate with your repsonses, in the past I can recall developers leaving over exactly this divide... Mike 5:) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkf0y6wACgkQu7rWomwgFXoCRACdHKACZY9yjfetGKJ5JtRP6y6U YBkAniFzWanDJvUkXUe8XglBBBP9sXsk =mp9f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list