"There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis. I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives..."

"I have recently learned git for version control, having used Subversion for four years and CVS for four years prior to that. It has a lot of nice features and I thought of a good application: restoration of lost history on a Subversion repository..." --
* To understand git read this completely => http://www.newartisans.com/blog_assets/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

There is a large interest among the Gentoo and larger Linux user community for me to come back as Chief Architect. And recently, I found out that in theory - maybe with a bit of fighting - the position was still available to me, as I was still registered as the President of the Gentoo Foundation up until recently.

KDE announced today that the one millionth commit has been made to its Subversion-based revision control system. Schumacher attributes this growth to the strength of both KDE's products and vision.

Sharing code between projects is still not a trivial matter with subversion. Especially if you are familiar with SourceSafe, you will find that subversion makes it hard to share code. Subversion seems to be really great in creating a version mess and good in solving one, but the reason I need source code control is to prevent such a mess.

I finally removed myself from all the Gentoo mailing lists. I did this with some sad thoughts. I had been using gentoo for almost 4 Years and it tough me quite a lot about Linux. Unfortunately I have been seeing the Gentoo project die over the past Year or so. After going to the Gentoo UK meeting in 2006 I noticed that nothing important / technical was discussed. It was all about the flame wars going on on the mailing lists.

I recently began charting the freefall of the Gentoo Linux distribution. The project peaked in 2003 but has been in steady decline since Daniel Robbins got up from the captains chair.

Gentoo Linux has its problems. Gentoo once heralded the source-based distribution revolution, but in the second half of my time with gentoo, things went from bad to worse.

"I got bitten by trying to use Python 2.5 code that I originally wrote for a Debian system on my Gentoo box and it being angry with me. Rather than rewriting it for the short time left that Gentoo has Python 2.4 as the default, I decided to go for it now..."