Managing Gentoo - from a user POV

Managing Gentoo - from a user POV

Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:04 UTC (Thu) by MathFox (guest, #6104)
Parent article: Managing Gentoo - a study in quotes

I think I have to compliment all Gentoo developers with the creation of one of the best available computing platforms. I am just a "bug reporting" user (sometimes reporting that an ebuild works on my ARCH.)

I think that Gentoo should continue to do what it is good at, providing an easy to use, easy to configure, up to date Open Source platform. For a volounteer organisation "having fun" should also be part of the game. I know that "keep the updates coming", "keep fixing the bugs" and especially "keep everything documented" is not everybody's idea of fun, but you do a good (better than professional) job.

From my professional experience I can tell that the best engineering managers don't interfere when their engineers make technical decisions. The managers are there to watch the goal of the project, track the planning, make sure that resources (people and equipment) is available and most importantly provide the message that everyone is working towards the same goal.

Projected back on Gentoo, it means that every developer should work towards the goal of making a great "distribution" even better. Telling that is IMO the most important thing for the Gentoo Management to do.

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