On Saturday 10 May 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo > > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is > > "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little > > motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. > > > > So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we > > test.
> For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for > new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is > very alive. > > The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics > also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a > dying distro. The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo users) had mistaken Gentoo for yet-another-binary-distro. Having a user friendly website that also caters to the needs of newcomers to the Gentoo scene, requires that the key features and benefits of Gentoo are easily visible/accessible. Not many people will navigate to hidden Statistics pages to draw their own conclusions. These could be users that one day prove valuable contributors. I suggest that we spring clean the website and consider our new visitors needs at the same time (plus things like the much asked for Documentation search field?). ;-) Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick
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