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The state of GentooThe state of GentooPosted Sep 24, 2011 9:42 UTC (Sat) by GentooUser (guest, #80434)Parent article: The state of Gentoo
A lot of users are willing to contribute to Gentoo, but are held back by some developers that only seem to worry about maintaining their position the most.
On bugzilla you can easily find valuable additions that have not been attended to for months and years, sometimes with even no comments from the devs. There've been people being rejected from a proxy maintenance, even though the rejecting dev does nothing to improve the software. On other occasions the dev's responses are clearly hostile.
Just a few of examples:
Will a user with such experience be ever motivated to actively participate in Gentoo again, or even use Gentoo at all, if Gentoo shows that it doesn't care about the user?
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The state of Gentoo Posted Sep 24, 2011 13:12 UTC (Sat) by jackb (subscriber, #41909) [Link]
When the Portage tree eventually gets switched to git I wonder if most of these problems won't go away on their own.
I'm not a developer but I'm reasonably comfortable using git for basic tasks.
So even though the plan is for regular users to still use rsync to get their tree once the switch is complete I plan on using git directly. Then I won't use overlays at all - I'll just maintain my own branch and pull from the sources that I want to use.
The effective barrier for entry will be lower once any user can create a bug report and publish a URL for a git tree that contains his solution for the problem.
Then some people who aren't Gentoo developers for some reason might publish their own trees containing fixes they found useful. If other people found those trees useful they'd start pulling from them and basically the distributed development model could work it's magic from then on.
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