Gentoo Isn’t Going Anywhere But Forwards
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 8:15 AM, Tue 27 Jun 06
Filed under: Gentoo
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There’s growing interest in a recent DistroWatch.com article, where they’ve started asking reasonable questions about whether or not Gentoo is in trouble. Folks (including Gentoo devs, alas) are hammering DistroWatch for the article, but tbh I think they need to look closer to home.
If you’ve got a bunch of folk, known to be associated with Gentoo, making statements about how they’re quitting over this, that, and the other, then expect to see articles like the DistroWatch article appearing on the ‘net. Couple that with blogs complaining about things and public fights on -dev, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
Then, imagine you’re outside Gentoo, and all you get to hear from the Gentoo project is stuff like the above. We know that it’s only a small part of the Gentoo story, but right now it’s the only part that anyone gets to hear about. It’s inevitable that folks outside Gentoo are going to be feeling that we’re only giving off a doom and gloom vibe.
They’ve got nothing else to tell them otherwise. Gentoo (as a project) needs to start getting its own message out there. Otherwise the vaccuum that’s left will inevitably fill with stuff like this.
One Comment
June 27th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Well, in all honesty the DW article deserves to be hammered. You’re right, though, in that Gentoo needs to put out some positive, truthful publicity. Sure, there’s some of that going on right now within various blogs and isolated messages to the lists, but we need to fill the vacuum, definitely, since we’ve had enough doom’n'gloom.
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