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I was asked on #gentoo-council to respond to this post so I will. It |
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should also be noted council members usually speak as individual members |
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instead of for the council as a whole. |
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On 04/07/2010 06:00 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 1. reconsider metadata changepolicies proposal |
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> [...] |
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>> Can council please decide to honor |
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>> the wish from developers to implement this? |
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> The council will be glad to vote on a GLEP when ready. From GLEP 1, |
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> GLEPs are the "primary mechanisms for proposing significant new |
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> features, for collecting community input on an issue, and for |
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> documenting the design decisions". So use them. |
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> Also, you might want to check the log and summary of the last meeting |
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> to find out why the council may end up voting no to such a GLEP. |
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This doesn't exclude council members themselves from working on such a |
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GLEP if they think it's needed. |
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>> 2. website redesign |
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> [...] |
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>> Can council assure that a team will be assembled that can |
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>> effectively tackle this issue? |
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> You want the council to aim their collective gun at volunteer |
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> developers and force them to assemble in a team and work on something |
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> they might not want to work on? |
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> In other words, if you want it then work on it and make it happen. |
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> This is and has always been the Gentoo way. |
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Council can't assure it will happen, they can only encourage and work |
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towards such a goal. |
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>> 3. manpower and recruitment issues |
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>> Another recurring theme is the lack of manpower in certain areas, the |
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>> recruitment bottleneck and the quizzes. There are some initiatives but |
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>> more decisive leadership is needed. Can council decide to actively |
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>> pursue solutions for these structural problems? |
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> The only way to solve this is to address these issues where they are. |
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> That means joining the recruiters team and helping them with that. |
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> Another thing you might want to do is properly mentor recruits. |
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> Because one reason recruiting takes so long, and thus why there is a |
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> backlog, is (to put is simply) that mentors suck at mentoring. |
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As said Council is not needed. Recruiters as a project can handle |
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improving it just fine. I think I have pinged gentoo-core quite a few |
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times to try get new people in, would it make a difference if I pinged |
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as a council representative instead of as the Recruiting lead? Good news |
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is that I have two people in training nowadays. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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