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Improving Gentoo as a tool

Gentoo is a metadistribution, meaning you’re supposed to built whatever you want with it. And we provide some of the tools to make that a reality, but we stop short. We still make it too hard to do...

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Improving quality in Gentoo

I recently posted about making Gentoo a better tool. A requirement for being a good tool is being a tool that doesn’t break—thus, we need to improve our quality to a more reliable level. I’m going to...

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HOWTO make Gentoo great

Gentoo is good. How do we make it great? Over the past year or so, I’ve read a few books, and I want to use those ideas to build a better Gentoo. The books: Good to Great, by Jim Collins The Five...

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Steps toward improving Gentoo

Having the right people in the right places pursuing the right goals is key to Gentoo’s success. Keeping in mind the Pareto principle (20% of the effort produces 80% of the results), I’ve come up with...

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You improve your code. What about yourself?

I laid out part of a framework for improving Gentoo in my last post. As many of you kindly noted, I explained what I wanted to do but did a poor job of convincing you why it needs to happen. That’s...

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links for 2009-02-19

Beckhard’s Change Equation Three factors must be present for meaningful organizational change to take place. These factors are: D = Dissatisfaction with the status quo; V = Vision of what is possible;...

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The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu? “The Hype Cycle describes the way that new technologies and projects are perceived over time, if they do a good job of handling themselves, going from a...

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Opportunities for Gentoo

When I’ve wanted to play in some new areas lately, it’s been a real frustration because Gentoo hasn’t had a complete set of packages ready in any of them. I feel like these are some opportunities for...

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