Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

[wireless@tampabay.rr.com]

On 11/22/14 13:00, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM,  <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> The first 100 or so I looked at, are deprecated. They just need somebody
>> to 'remove them' the BGO java backlog is being artificially used to
>> prevent java work on gentoo. Somebody of authority needs to open
>> up java for other folks to work on. Close the 100 oldest bugs
>> is a no brainer and a good start, yet nobody will do that, and nobody
>> else is allowed to close them. *CONVENIENT* if you hate java and are
>> in control.

> Please don't take this as some kind of rejection.  I'd love to see
> Gentoo have great Java support.  However, I doubt it matters as much
> to me as it does to you, so you're the one with the incentive to make
> it happen.  That's how just about everything that exists in Gentoo got
> the way it is - somebody cared and made it happen.
>
> --
> Rich
>

Exactly. So we agree; that is the reason the original post on the idea
to move everything external to gentoo core, is a very bad one. Java 
exists and prospers on Gentoo, mostly in overlays. Formalizing that
(original) proposal will only serve to further enshrine the fact that 
java on gentoo, get's little love and no java-centric developer will
every get close to the "core" or gentoo.


I'm using java as an example; the science herd and the clustering herd
(projects if you like) are in the same boat. I do appreciate your candid
and clear responses.


James