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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-council <gentoo-council@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:51:00
Message-Id: 20090212155056.GA3642@comet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009 by "Tiziano Müller"
1 On 07:53 Thu 12 Feb , Tiziano Müller wrote:
2 > That's true. But just deciding that we need people to discuss it and
3 > then not fostering that discussion ourselves actively is not
4 > acceptable. Once we get the task to take care of a matter we have to
5 > take care of it until it's done completely. This involves bringing the
6 > subject up on the mailinglist (and not just publish the summary and
7 > wait for people to read through it and then start a discussion
8 > depending on what they may find in the summary), get the information
9 > we need to be able to decide somewhere else, etc.
10 >
11 > Why don't we assign each task to one of us council members to do that,
12 > so we get for every task someone who's taking care of it, making sure
13 > it gets on the agenda again, maybe even preparing a summary of the
14 > matter for the rest of the council (in complicated cases), posting on
15 > the mailing-list, commenting on the corresponding bug, etc.? I guess
16 > that's what Ciaran meant in the "Secretary"-Thread.
17
18 I agree that it's a great idea to assign someone responsibility for
19 following up, and I think that the person who brings up the topic is
20 best qualified and motivated to do so. I don't see any reason to require
21 it to be a council member.
22
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Donnie
26
27 Donnie Berkholz
28 Developer, Gentoo Linux
29 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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Re: [gentoo-council] Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>