Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in > gentoo-terms
I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. It has always seemed to me that we'd be better off simply using one of them and saving the effort for something closer to our core competency/mission. Yes, there's some pride in being able to say we're self-hosting. But is it /really/ worth it? To me personally, the answer has always been no. But gentoo, like most volunteer projects, is very much a "scratch your own itch" type of thing. As long as there's gentoo devs with that itch... but /is/ there, any more? And given that sysrescuecd is gentoo-based, there's a good argument to be made that having it as it our official install media isn't giving up on self-hosting at all. In fact, by declaring it our official installer even as we recognize its independent place in the larger FLOSS community, we're recognizing its value and importance not only to us, but to the larger community of which we are a part. Thus definitely ++. The one big concern I have is that in our approach to the srcd folks we make clear we're *NOT* attempting to take over their project. That's the sensitivity I see with the co-branded idea. I'd actually prefer that we NOT do a co-branded thing, unless the srcd folks suggest it (this assumes yngwin's not srcd upstream and thus did indeed just make that offer, I don't know), and simply cooperate a bit more with them, filing bugs (and as their upstream fixing them in gentoo where possible), helping to fix the ppp networking config issues already mentioned, etc, while simply using their releases as they are. If we want to point out that they're a gentoo-based project that we happily endorse in our handbook links to them, great, but I'm afraid a co-branded suggestion from our side might come across as an attempt to take over, and that'd benefit absolutely no one! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
