Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

[Christopher Schwan <cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de>]

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Hi,

you motivate your proposal by claiming the Gentoo Project stagnates which you 
relate with its decline in popularity:

> According to Linux Counter
> http://web.archive.org/web/20120101000000*/http://linuxcounter.net/distribut
> ions/stats.html
> 
> In January 2012, Gentoo distro had 5.32%
> In January 2012, Gentoo had 4.04%
> In November 2013, Gentoo had 4,21%
> 
> And from my experience of Gentoo forums, gentoo.wiki - I vote for Gentoo at
> least not gaining new users. If in several years the number of users is not
> increased - we can tell about stagnation.

But let me ask this question: Is the number of users really that important to 
Gentoo? Since it does not strive for world domination I think all that matters 
is to keep the current userbase happy. From your thread I do not understand 
whats wrong on that side:

> For various reasons many techs were not implemented and now Gentoo is in a 
kind of stagnation.

What do you mean by that in particular? And what is wrong with 
bugs.gentoo.org? Wouldn't it be better to talk about how attract more 
developers? I guess a lot unsolved bugs stem from the fact that there are too 
few that can take care of them.

Cheers,
Christopher

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