Well Frank, First and foremost, Gentoo is quite far ahead of the other distros. I choose Gentoo on my server farm specifically because it is much higher ahead in the stable department so much more than Ubuntu and RHEL which ironically are the leaders in server OS deployment. All too often I run into data centers that specifically run Ubuntu or RHEL and when I look at the version #'s on those machines and compare them to my gentoo servers, they pale in comparison.
Frank, I think you are jumping the gun on this issue. I'm not going to flame you, but if you really want to participate in gentoo-dev, I will totally not mind you joining the effort to get the newer packages put out. I tell you what, do what a lot of people are doing and that is making your own ebuilds. Make a website, put your ebuilds on it and test it out. You will further gentoo-dev out much better than it is now.
