Raúl Porcel wrote: > > IIRC you are from the blubb era, i'm i right? Blubb did a really god job > with amd64, and in fact amd64 started 'slacking' since blubb left. > Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore, in a lot of bugs i've seen an > AT of yours posting his results, when i was going to do my arches. So i > was more faster even that i have no ATs. >
Yup - blubb is certainly missed. I can't point any fingers myself - I try to find and stabilize packages as I'm able to, but I can only spend so much time on gentoo. Every little bit helps though, even if I'm not high on the commits/day rankings. There are amd64 ATs out there - which brings up the other thread floating around. We need better ways to flag bugs that have been touched by an AT - for all I know there are a dozen open bugs that an AT has tested, but if there aren't any keywords or anything else I can query for, I can't get them stabilized. > > Indeed, but on x86 we don't assume it either :) I don't understand how > you having so many users, have manpower problems, you have two channels > on IRC, x86 only has one and nobody says anything. > It's just a though, i'm not blaming anyone. > My observation is that there are heavy-lifters who do a disproportionate share of the work. I'm certainly not one of them, and I really do appreciate these folks. If a heavy-lifter gives attention to something, it will shine. However, Gentoo is a volunteer-driven organization, and you can't order heavy-lifters to work on something in particular - it is their passion for what they choose to work on that makes them so effective. I guess what we need is processes that enable lots of small contributors to make a big difference - the bazzar approach. Another reply on this thread pointed out that it would be nice to be able to tell what packages people are using - if we could tell what is being used it would help guide stabilization without sacrificing testing (our users would be de-facto ATs without realizing it). The power of a thousand people doing very little can add up - many users would gladly sign up to have their packages monitored if it would help the gentoo cause. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
