Roy Bamford wrote: > Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system down. A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is going to run a Gentoo School with courses for developers, that sounds cool (and may relieve some burden from the developers mentors). Probably its objectors just want the project to formalize its methods before official launch.
In regard to the "rule of thumb" you suggest to verify average quality, I wouldn't consider a reliable way to assess quality. I suppose that part of responsibility of Gentoo towards their users consist in "using caution" in their choices. Caution suggest that you cannot suppose the long-term effects by measuring the current, limited, 150-ebuilds version of this project. Also, it's better to debate this path now, rather than wait until we realize Gentoo cannot handle at least minimal safety of a 100000-ebuilds user-contributed overlay used by hundreds/thousands of people and throw it in the dustbin with a "we said that if it doesn't work, we kill it" quote. It would be a lack of respect towards the efforts of users that contributed to it. - Giacomo 'jwk' Cariello -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
