Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 04:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: > > I believe that's where the differing opinions begin to come in. Here's > > mine. I don't believe that Gentoo, /as/ /Gentoo/, will ever be very > > successful as an Enterprise distribution, and I don't think that it can > > every be very successful as a binary distribution, either. The things > > that make us, that is Gentoo, unique, and the best in our area, by > > definition are the /same/ sort of things that make a relatively poor > > enterprise or binary distribution. > > I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a > meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution > easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks to Gentoo/Alt. > > I think that any single direction that we shoot towards will cause > friction internally and will reduce productivity, along with leaving > certain projects out. We're simply moving in too many directions to > have a single direction.
+1
Each project has a direction they want to go in, and by setting some sort of
"global vision" we are only going to restrict this.
> The biggest concern that I see here is a lack of communications, really.
> We don't need direction. We just need some way for people to know who's
> going where. I think Koon's "MetaBug" project would be an excellent
> idea to assist in this. We need a body with some teeth to get things
> done in a timely manner. We also need enforcement of some sort to
> ensure projects are active and reporting information on their status.
Sounds good as well. I'd like to see all of the projects/teams saying what
their goals are, or what they have done to move towards their goals.
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