On 07-04-2006 11:07:28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I mean, as a purely hypothetical example... Could you imagine just how > many dumb feature requests, questions and requests for code from the > unwashed masses someone would get if they admitted to having an early > alpha of an alternative to Portage that didn't require Python? Having > to deal with the noise would be more than enough to ensure that no more > development would ever get done...
This is ofcourse a purely hypothetical prediction for a hypothetical example. Another hypothesis might be that noone would care about the hypothetical alternative to Portage, hence no developer obstruction would take place at all. Yet another hypothesis might be that there would actually exist a few smart users that give some smart comments on the, in this case hypothetical, product. Maybe user-rel should, together with GWN bridge this problem by keeping the source of news anonymous? Just to use it as teasers of what kind of things are being done in Gentoo's kitchen? Of course this only holds for new projects like in your hypothetical example. Existing projects, like KDE and GCC probably already deal with questions from users, and giving a status update once a month would in my opinion help them to keep users both informed and interested, which is what the original poster meant I think. From a user-rel perspective the information is used to inform the users that they're not waiting in vain for something not to happen, as well as why they are waiting, for example. -- Fabian Groffen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
