[gentoo-dev][Gentoo Phoenix] Re: Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

On 3 April 2010 11:46, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 04/03/10 11:16, Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
>> Hell no, but ...
>>
>> We have lots of quite understaffed areas, to sum up in a positive way.
>> Summing it up the negative way one might say, we have lots of areas were
>> users might get the idea Gentoo already is dead.
>
> So what are _you_ doing to make it better?

I like that attitude! And I'm so going to steal your idea about the phoenix.
I'll start using the [Gentoo Phoenix] tag for discussions about how we
can make Gentoo better. Maybe we could even start a project for it,
trying to bring together ideas and people who want to improve things.
I have several things I wanted to start a discussion about already, and
it seems these things are in the air now as I see these topics popping
up left and right now. I'll fork off from this discussion into some specific
things in order to try to keep things a bit organized.


>> So - what to do now?
> For me it's simple. I try to
> - dedicate time to fixing things. Takes lots of time, can be demotivating

As I've recently refocussed my Gentoo activities on Qt, and withdrawn
from various other herds I was involved in, I now have some time and
motivation to pick up something new. I wish to dedicate this to something
that will really help and I believe these discussions are a good starting
point. I hope it will trigger others in similar ways.

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux Qt project lead developer