On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, davecode@(protected):
> Hi,
>
> We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo
> home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is
> "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little
> motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect.
>
> So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we
> test.
>
> Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new
> reported, maybe?? At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected
> final release date"? Counting lines of code or something?
>
> Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present
> expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask.
>
> Thanks.
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You might want to take a look at Gentoo's Bugzilla charts and
statistics:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/report.cgi

For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for
new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is
very alive.

The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics
also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a
dying distro.