Mark Loeser wrote: > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> >>>I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's >>>mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very >>>successful as an Enterprise distribution, and I don't think that it can >>>every be very successful as a binary distribution, either. The things >>>that make us, that is Gentoo, unique, and the best in our area, by >>>definition are the /same/ sort of things that make a relatively poor >>>enterprise or binary distribution. >> >>I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a >>meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution >>easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. >> >>I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause >>friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving >>certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to >>have a single direction. > > > +1 > > Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some sort of > "global vision" we are only going to restrict this.
I never meant that each subproject can't have their own goals. They need to have those of course! I was more directed that there isn't a person in charge of all the subprojects just to keep track of them (Not governing them). i.e. if subproject foo is working on adding feature X to portage, then this person could make sure the portage people know that these folks are wanting to add that feature instead of blind siding them. Of course, if we lived in a perfect world, they would go ahead and work together like that. I'm not stating that we'd want to restrict everyone from doing what they want, just that there's some kind of direction/guidance/overall project manager that keeps track of all these projects. They would keep track of all this and report back to the council/devs/etc. We've gotten to the size that trying to get everyone communicating with everyone is getting difficult. Having someone overseeing these things might help development and make sure everyone is on the same page. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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