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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:51:58 +0100
From: "Christopher O'Neill" <chris.oneill@gmail.com>
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving Gentoo User Relations
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As a Gentoo user, one thing that I'd very much like to see is improved
communication between the dev teams and the users. At the moment it
feels pretty much like I am in the dark as regarding to how we are
progressing on certain things. Let me pick some examples:
. A few days ago someone posted on the dev list asking about KDE3.5.x
and it's current masked status. As a KDE user myself I was also
interested in the answer to his question, but to my dismay his first
response was less than helpful! Although he did eventually get a
satisfactory response, wouldn't it have been better if he hadn't had
to ask at all? I'm sure many more people are wondering the same and
probably aren't subscribed to this list.
. I notice certain other popular distros are now running GCC4 (and
have been for some time), yet we are still running 3.4.6 (on ~x86). I
know it's a lot of work ensuring that all packages compile properly
with GCC4 and that there are no introduced bugs, but I have no idea
how we are progressing on this - and wouldn't even like to ask for
fear of asking in the wrong place..
. How's portage 2.1 getting along? I notice it gets frequent updates.
I am not asking for answers for those questions, they are merely
examples (I could think of many more, so please don't single these
out). The point I am making is how we (the users) are in the dark on
how Gentoo is progressing. This is the main reason I have subscribed
to this mailing list (as well as Gentoo-Users) in an attempt to keep
track of what's happening, but without much success).
Ideally, what I'd like is for the various dev teams to compile a
weekly status report, which could then be compiled into the weekly
newsletter (which currently seems to be lacking much useful
information). It would be great if we (the users) could find out
what's going on behind the scenes of our favourite distribution.
Anyway Christel, I hope this is the sort of response you are looking for.
--
Chris
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