Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

[Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com>]

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There is the ongoing drama about go in the Gentoo-dev ML for example.

Il Mar 21 Apr 2020, 19:12 Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk> ha scritto:

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 07:58:03PM +0300, Consus wrote:
> > In all honesty, is Gentoo dead? Gentoo-Dev is filled with passive
> > aggression (though being developers-only mailing list), Github bot warns
> > you that contributing new packages to the main repo is low priority and
> > probably no one will help you, and even distribution kernel is not an
> > official thing, but a desperate attempt of someone to fix things.
>
> Considering there have been almost 6000 commits to the repository in the
> last 21
> days, I would question that claim.
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-commits/threads/2020-04/
>
> gentoo-dev isn't really filled with  any  sort  aggression.   There  is
> healthy
> debate, especially considering the recent switch to Python 3.7  and
> masking  of
> most 3.6-only packages, but that rigorous scrutiny is a requirement for
> such  a
> strong distro.
>
> There  have,  of  course,  been  exceptions,  such  as  when  bman  went
> on  an
> "unsanctioned Python crusade"  (removal  of  all  Python  2  packages;
> not  the
> greatest of ideas), however in general, the Gentoo community is one of
> the  most
> alive and healthy I've seen in any Linux distribution.
>
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6e8d816eb0125d6581be70f575272653
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