Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

On 04/17/2015 07:15 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Alexander Berntsen
> <bernalex@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/04/15 16:33, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>>> The problem is double effort: previously one developer effort was
>>> needed, now effort is doubled at least
>> You have correctly identified the problem; in order to do things
>> properly one must do things properly, which is more difficult than not
>> doing things properly.
>>
> 
> "Properly" is just a matter of requirements.  Gentoo has 18k packages
> right now.  In my general experience, they install fine maybe 95% of
> the time.
> 

Can you back up your "general experience" with a tinderbox log? In
addition, you are decreasing "QA" to "compiles". That's not the definition.

> Right now we
> end up dropping packages because we can't find one person to maintain
> them.  With a review workflow we'll drop packages if we can't find two
> people to maintain them.

Nah, that's really not true. With a review workflow there is less need
for actual maintainers! That's the whole point.


I am really confused. I guess some people have never really been in a
different workflow than gentoo to know that it's really not
state-of-the-art. And it really isn't. Not even for distros.