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On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:14 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> in general you speak about the council but do you have any concrete |
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> plans/goals you want to achieve? |
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I think we are in the information gathering phase right now on how to |
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best proceed. So nothing concrete as of this point. More abstract ideas |
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at this point. |
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> Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>: |
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> > The dev population is quite a strange beast. I never expected to win. |
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> Nor did I, especially because you were quite low on my ballot. |
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> Congratulations. |
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> > The devs have a voice one time of the year: when it comes time to |
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> > vote. But what about the rest of the year? What happens when the |
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> > person you voted for sucks? You are mostly powerless to do anything |
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> > other than be really vocal in what seems like a never ending battle. |
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> > That needs to change. I'm not quite sure how. But I'd like to see the |
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> > dev body have a year-round voice in the council. Either via quick |
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> > votes year-round on topics or simply by having discussion in the |
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> > channel. Devs should have a right to voice their concerns to the |
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> > council and engage in interactive conversations without being labeled |
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> > troll. |
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> We have the forums for quick votes, votify is too much to get a |
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> picture of opinions. So use -dev-announce and forums. |
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> > Another one of the things I'd like to see and help reform with the |
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> > council. First off it spends way too much time on EAPI/PMS. There is |
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> > no reason to make the council an extension of the portage team. |
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> As member of the PMS team I agree, we have to reach out to more |
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> people. No matter how well Ciaran does the job as editor-in-chief |
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> the process needs to be broadened to involve other groups, too. |
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> > For example prefix comes to mind. It was a project I did not like at |
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> > first. I'm not even a user. And there are things I surely don't like |
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> > about it as is. But there is community support and it's the icing on |
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> > the cake for some. So I'll back the fsck up and give credit where |
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> > it's due. This is a perfectly good example of a project/fork that |
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> > needs to come back home. Perhaps it's time to cherry pick some more |
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> > stuff/people out of Sunrise? |
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> Fully agree here, my devhood is a product of Sunrise. |
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> > desultory points out any two council members can decide to approve |
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> > anything, and that decision is considered to be equivalent to a full |
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> > council vote until the next meeting. I vaguely recall that rule. I'm |
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> > not sure about you, but I think that is a little to much power to put |
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> > in the hands of a few. Any dev mind if we dump that power? |
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> Maybe extend that to three, but leave such a emergency measure in |
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> place. |
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> > Meetings will likely go back to one time per month and be +m with +v |
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> > be handed out per request with open chat pre/post meetings. The |
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> > reason for this is to keep the meetings on-track. I won't engage in |
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> > endless discussions. Facts can be presented. They will be reviewed on |
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> > merit, technical and social. |
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> Agree. |
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> > The reason the meetings should go back to monthly is to allow those |
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> > who are council members in Gentoo to accomplish things other than the |
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> > council only. We all have personal lives and we all have our |
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> > respective roles we play outside of the council. Another note on |
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> > meetings. The time they are held currently don't fit well with my |
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> > work schedule. |
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> That you have to discuss with your fellow council members. |
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> > So lets have some damn fun again !@#$ |
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> Oh yeah! |
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> V-Li |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |