[gentoo-dev] Re: app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> > I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the ref. What was the reason
>> > for forking the codebase? It gets pretty annoying to copy across
>> > useful changes, especially while eselect is stuck in svn.
>> 
>> Ease of getting things done. Going through Gentoo requires finding a
>> Gentoo maintainer, endless bikeshed arguments about how to implement
>> things like the new alternatives framework and then months of waiting
>> for approval.
> 
> Open and public debate about the right way to do things does take
> longer, and it's something you certainly participate in quite frequently
> so I'm surprised to hear you badmouth it when it comes to your own
> ideas.
> 
You should have posted this to -project imo, as it's not about any technical
points, but rather about non-technical aspects of development.