2024 in retrospect (Gentoo News)

[Posted January 7, 2025 by jzb]

Gentoo Linux has published a project retrospective that looks at the major improvements and news from 2024, the Gentoo Foundation's finances, and contributions to Gentoo by the numbers.

The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2024, with a 2.4% increase from 121000 to 123942. The number of commits by external contributors has grown strongly from 10708 to 12812, now across 421 unique external authors.

The importance of GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user model, as entry point for potential developers, is clearly increasing as well. We have had 7517 commits in 2024, a strong growth from 5045 in 2023. The number of contributors to GURU has increased a lot as well, from 158 in 2023 to 241 in 2024. Please join us there and help packaging the latest and greatest software.

GURU's pretty ncie

Posted Jan 8, 2025 2:48 UTC (Wed) by ErikF (subscriber, #118131) [Link]

I've been really happy with the revamped repository selection system using `eselect repository` instead of `layman`; it's also nice not to have to pull in a billion repos anymore for the stuff that I use because they and their dependencies have moved to GURU. I just looked at zugaina and according to it, there are almost 2800 ebuilds which isn't too shabby!