From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JulQM-0003Pf-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:31:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3941CE05C2; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B332E05C2 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72CD1067E3; Sat, 10 May 2008 05:31:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 10 May 2008 05:31:24 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 6bvh4lgQVO0qGwiHIUCPgKivKlbBTYRO+JHoNJ6MC3sN 1210411884 Received: from [192.168.2.2] (dslb-088-072-144-161.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.72.144.161]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 186A8A81B for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 05:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1210375150.30766.1252372927@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1210375150.30766.1252372927@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zo+gsU07oLCyoq1jv1qv" Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 11:31:19 +0200 Message-Id: <1210411879.9927.15.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 93865256-d643-4102-963c-6e9991433f89 X-Archives-Hash: 1d84f134c94d67115a0ae7ced70fbce4 --=-zo+gsU07oLCyoq1jv1qv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, davecode@nospammail.net wrote: > Hi, >=20 > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is > "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little > motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. >=20 > So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we > test. >=20 > Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new > reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected > final release date"? Counting lines of code or something? >=20 > Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present > expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. >=20 > Thanks. > --=20 > =20 > davecode@nospammail.net >=20 > --=20 > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > unladen european swallow >=20 You might want to take a look at Gentoo's Bugzilla charts and statistics: http://bugs.gentoo.org/report.cgi For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is very alive. The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a dying distro. =20 --=-zo+gsU07oLCyoq1jv1qv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkgla2YACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/VRwCdGV3MjPW/abzIqfCfHXRFdbo3 Ad0An3tYSB8Mv2pf0/PFD0gd0/rWvcl0 =ccgs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zo+gsU07oLCyoq1jv1qv-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list