On 9/2/06, Wiktor Wandachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suppose that there is a way that Gentoo can follow, only that its leaders, developers and users need to see it clearly. Is there a publicly visible page that contains current goals for new releases? Where all sub-project leaders could add their own goals, coherent with the general vision? I couldn't find it, but maybe I haven't looked in the right places?
The problem I see is that for Gentoo the releases are not really useful milestones for most projects. A release is really significant for a few core packages, but what is the real downside for users if Xorg 7.2 is stabilized one week after a release? Outside of the fact that they have to compile it themselves instead of using the GRP package...not much that I see. For a distro like Ubuntu, a release is very significant, as it is the platform that users will be running for the next 6-18 months. Do you think Ubuntu roadmaps would be useful without being tied to a release? Or could project status reports (as discussed here recently) fit the same bill?
Maybe I should raise such concerns to the User Representatives first
No, definitely not. The point of user reps (of which I am one) is not to filter communications between devs and users, but to improve the communications between the two camps, among other things. If you want to bring an idea up here directly, nobody should respond with "talk to your userrep". -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
