Well its that time of the year again where everyone tries to come up with great ideas for things to implement into their open source projects. Again Gentoo has been graciously accepted by Google to be a mentoring organization to get people involved in Open Source Projects. Google I give a lot of credit for giving money to get people involved in the movement, even if it helps them as well.

However, I’m disappointed in Gentoo again. One of the proposals is for a project that is not part of the Gentoo sphere. That one being Paludis. Yes its in the tree, but so is gnome. So should we be doing something for Gnome because its in there? No, that’s not something that is going to help us. The java related ones are different as they are improving a large portion of how an entire section is handled. Its clearly depend what its goal is and how to obtain it. I give credit to the java team for coming up with clear concise objectives…if albeit it maybe not the most realistic for a student to get done. Another that I’m actually looking forward to seeing is the LVM integration into the installer. That’s one that has real benefits for a ton of users, as LVM allows you to grow and shrink your filesystem so easily, while trying that with the actual file system utils can be impossible at times.

I don’t know..I just think it’d be better if we focused on Gentoo official projects then something that is associated with Gentoo because it works with the ebuilds..and some Gentoo developers work on it. Blehness…..