anyone see this?

[wolfden]

Is the Gentoo Project in trouble? Recently, signs of dissatisfaction with the way things are done at Gentoo have started appearing with increasing regularity. Jochen Maes in Leaving Gentoo: "Today I resigned from my beloved project Gentoo." The author quotes lack of respect and trust from other Gentoo developers, ongoing power struggles, and frequent signs of disregarding Gentoo policies as the main reasons for his decision. Joshua Jackson in State of affairs: "...the fact that working on Gentoo has not been as much fun as it has in the past has made me consider retiring." The author also reveals that a growing number of Gentoo developers now consider leaving the project. What's going on? Are these examples just isolated incidents or is the popular source-based distribution going through the toughest period in its existence? If you are a Gentoo developer reading this page, please share your views in the forum below.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060626

This is like the 2nd time now I have seen something like this with Gentoo. I believe it was Dec. or so rumors started flying around about Gentoo in trouble. I would really hate to see Gentoo go down the tubes. Gentoo is my second longest distro I have had, over 2 years. I run slackware on my other machines.

[rubengonc]

Well..I don't think so...Gentoo is a well established project, with a big (i would say very big) and great community!

It is a big project too...difficult to manage of course. Maybe some re-organization of the project would be good.

[lxnay]

I agree with rubengonc, even if some developers have a closed mind sometimes. But there are very good devs on the Gentoo planet . Kudos to them.

[moldor]

I'm new to Sabayon, but this topic intrigued me...

Do you think that Gentoo / Debian / <other distro> sized projects will all go the same way, and that projects like Ubuntu, which has a large corporate support base, will take over ?

MEPIS hve already said that their next release will be based on Ubuntu rather than "pure" Debian...

Just wondering...

[Goatee]

Hope not, 'cos we are not corporate.

[cvill64]

gentoo is like an OS, it has a few bugs and eventually it'll get worked out. Its a pretty unique way of handling an OS and therefore the development process is probably a bit different, so I hope all is going well upstream as we wouldn't be able to put out SL w/o the upstream

[moldor]

gentoo is like an OS, it has a few bugs and eventually it'll get worked out. Its a pretty unique way of handling an OS and therefore the development process is probably a bit different, so I hope all is going well upstream as we wouldn't be able to put out SL w/o the upstream

Please don't misunderstand, I certainly hope SL doesn't go this way - in fact I pray it doesn't...

Just that Ubuntu, love it or hate it, seems to be making some major in-roads... Although I have yet to see any distro, with the possible exception of SuSE, that can show XGL working perfectly out of the box as SL has done.

Certainly blew people at my workplace away when I showed them the "eye candy", and showed them how potentially useful it could be !

[kennylog]

certainly fun to show them how plain their computers are

you can get working xgl with kororaa and dreamlinux too, but i noticed sabayon does a better job for different video cards and kororaa development is a bit slow

[Goatee]

koraa is just for xgl, it wasn't a project before