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 1M1Nsg-0001ez-V7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 May 2009 16:52:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B00CE0802; Tue, 5 May 2009 16:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027CFE0802 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 16:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so4400076fxm.34 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:52:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6BHrQJ3r2F7WkyTSWIYIAeozWEMRxNnLejjj0+ehEJg=; b=Y8AYIqeWo6BU7D5iCcDVrS6df9pTaXCSQ2GldV+wRrbh2ffwpIqThCN4i3TH9BUHiq CWPjqyuygO9j4fCZpyu7EO4OIlZ4X17X1LcoCZtJWdJZ0ToD2CsaTnQ7cc2lYxnQcUsl YOc2y0Ujuqly22RdK0eGN3GMNrD7z72ROzZa0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=trndYqKfJAsmfto4RaD0GKz3IjztNd8AIazQlJqF2OcP+3/w+WAA6mYC6tZK4VmppS rN4DyKXXHwggV/IqvMmcXHiCVDZryWY6+MXfA3BNFxhLa2rOOWrJu7LRXdqVyOw2bssl 8Fv2bMSLMMCEYrhUovOWBg8rsc1ujP2bgAOl4= Received: by 10.103.193.12 with SMTP id v12mr232009mup.23.1241542351594; Tue, 05 May 2009 09:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.65? ([90.242.119.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm20251330muo.3.2009.05.05.09.52.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 May 2009 09:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A006ED2.60202@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:52:34 +0100 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) 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] Retiring References: <1241385973.4028.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200905051706.49058.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <20090505162600.GC9825@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <200905051941.21267.hwoarang@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200905051941.21267.hwoarang@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e26066c-8188-4f48-be93-c4e8702d599f X-Archives-Hash: 38e053bd13e919e194c15ecafcb78910 Markos Chandras wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:00 Thomas Anderson wrote: >> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote: >>>> Arch >>>> teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs >>>> on the major archs - if you use a minor arch that isn't as well >>>> supported I'm sure we'd be happy to have more help. >>> Arch teams, according to their project pages, are in a good shape. Major >>> arches have enough people ( assuming that the project pages are up2date ) >> The amd64 project page at least is definitely not. We have a ton of >> slackers. I'd venture to say most in the project don't actively work on >> amd64 at all. We are handling the load fairly well though. >> >> Thomas > /me is listing all the reported issues > > Really? I was thinking about joining amd64 project but when I visited the > project page , I saw like 25 people listed as developers. So I thought that > "Woow,there are plenty of dudes here, so there is no urgent need for new > developers right now" > > This is a major issue as well. If the project pages are way out of date, how > do we expect people to understand our real needs on manpower etc. Cleaning and > updating the project pages once a while is not that difficult. It takes about > 15' ( and a couple of e-mails to inform the slackers ). > > If we really (?) want to run a "recruitment" campaign, our "web presence" but > be quite active and responsible. > Is all this "help needed" stuff that ordinary users can help out with? If so dont people go and ask for help in the forums?