From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwNIa-00047f-Hi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:33:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBIIUutY024251; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:30:56 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBIISesD013528 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:28:41 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i12so613611wra for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:28:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rUylH5nnmbHi8nPeveZNe7AyPP7dDQv6z9o9YqsO6lyjOvYmuR5lT/Bvh7sXpLTs6CuIJP8/rFzCh1lYH7TEDs/1jUpFC118jX1wyBj72Sa3VW/YUtKoF8xpKeHjvapX0HA0N0SQyIBioNs8sRlfq87YJYtDDCfQHmfydnlLwp8= Received: by 10.90.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr4128609agz.1166466519925; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.56.10 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10612181028t77bb8459y8650ab50bbc088a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:28:39 -0800 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? In-Reply-To: <200612181850.19743.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612182155.11490.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <49bf44f10612180836w2362f6e0l2fc812cd5022e3@mail.gmail.com> <200612181850.19743.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 9f4fc25a-d144-44e8-aa65-1c48519b4b33 X-Archives-Hash: fcf5f87cf8425f498949d464c34b7ab1 > > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > > personally still love Gentoo. > > Once again I'll refer to the blog [1] of kloeri, Lead of the Gentoo Developer > Relations project (devrel) and a member of the Gentoo Council. > > Also [2] clearly shows that Gentoo is quite active in terms of daily > commits... Very good to see that. > > > > I personally still love Gentoo. > > > > > > What's the problem then? :) > > > > bugs.gentoo.org :) > > Pfft. bugs.gentoo.org will be replaced by what is now bugstest.gentoo.org > hopefully in the following weekend. Surely before the end of this year.. I > could dig out a number of references to back that up but I won't bother given > how you haven't backed up any part of your claims in this thread... What claims? > > Do you think Gentoo is waning? > > Just because a project isn't moving as fast or as focused as some people might > want it to doesn't mean it's declining! It means the rate of growth is declining. > > Is Debian the only similar distro out there? > > I would say that it is a lot easier to list the similarities than the > differences between Debian and Gentoo. Debian really isn't that similar... > > [1] http://kloeri.livejournal.com/2006/06/17/ > [2] http://cia.navi.cx/ - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list