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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote: |
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> Some projects are territorial. Games is one. I imagine adding something |
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> to kde, gnome, or xfce categories without contacting those guys would get you |
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> an email. If in doubt I usually file a bug when I'm adding a package and CC |
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> them. If they don't respond, I add it. |
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Perhaps, but in general devs should be fairly free to add new packages |
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to the tree as long as they properly maintain them. If a dev makes a |
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mistake with a newly-added package, then file a bug and they can fix |
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it. If there is a dispute over whether something is a bug then we |
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have QA/Devrel/council/etc. |
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That said, things work best when everybody cooperates, so if the |
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maintainer and a project can get along that is fine. If not, then |
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that's what Devrel/Council is for. |
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In that bug it was suggested that the Council doesn't get involved |
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with projects. I'm not quite sure in that case why we'd even bother |
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to have a Council. I view the Council like the Supreme Court - the |
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lower courts (projects) can do things however seems best, but if |
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things get out of hand you can always appeal. Most of the time the |
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Council will just let the projects run things, but in general I think |
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they should have fairly absolute control over the distro, since they |
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are an elected body (alongside the Trustees which has a different but |
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perhaps overlapping domain). |
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Rich |
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