Thank you for your advice. It's good to hear that someone else is in a
similar scenario.
The only thing that's going to be a hard sell around here is Catalyst --
our senior sysadmin (who is a considerably more seasoned Gentoo user
than myself) has taken the position that using Catalyst is unnecessary
and that emerge (targeting a chroot, with appropriate FEATURES set to
generate binary packages) should be adequate. He's not immovable on such
things -- but I'll need to have a very solid understanding of the
benefits of using Catalyst before arguing any case to the contrary.
(I've also contacted the author of gentoo-buildhoster to find out why he
abandoned it, what he's using in its place, and whether he believes the
project to be worth picking up; if he believes catalyst-2 to be more
suitable for his use cases, understanding the reasoning behind that
decision may provide some powerful arguments).
Much of your other advice (ie. quickstart) is completely in line with
our preexisting plans; thanks again for answering. (As for some of the
items you're curious about -- such as our staff-to-server ratio -- I'm
not entirely comfortable discussing all of that on an archived list;
perhaps on IRC).
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