* Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead
@ 2014-01-13 16:41 99% ` Alec Warner
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From: Alec Warner @ 2014-01-13 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo Dev; +Cc: Peter Stuge
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:12 +0100
> Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
>
> > Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > > So, yes, we need more people on pkgcore; no, we can't just leave
> > > Portage behind, as it still is the beating heart of Gentoo for now.
> >
> > I guess the point is that it might continue beating long enough mostly
> > on its own.
>
> How certain are you of this guess? How long is long enough? Mostly?
>
> At the moment, it beats mostly on our efforts to it; and in the near
> future, it'll need to adapt further to newer EAPIs as well as further
> bugs and other complexities in the Portage trees. Otherwise you'll get
> a lot of "we can't continue because they stopped developing Portage".
>
> Hence that's why it comes up every now and then as a subject, hence
> someone finally made the call to reinforcement, ...; so, it won't have
> to continue beating on its own at all.
>
>
As usual, it is nigh impossible to force people to work on a specific
project. I would encourage radhermit to ask for assistance if he thinks he
needs it. dol-sen asked because he is working on a bunch of projects and
knows he cannot maintain portage by himself. Even if the council were to
decree that portage be frozen, I doubt that would actually halt
contributions.
-A
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>
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