On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:37:36 +0530
"Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@...> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
> <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:50:51 -0700
> > "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote:
> >> I'm a maintainer and I'll say right out that I won't fix things
> >> unless they make sense to me; regardless of what some council says.
> >
> > Then I'd imagine devrel would have to step in.
> 
> I highly doubt that would happen unless they want to risk alienating a
> group of active, useful developers over a disagreement over an ebuild
> format.

So you're saying that devrel shouldn't and won't step in if developers
refuse to go along with a council decision?

> There's a reason why Donnie pushed for having all Council agendas
> publicly discussed on the gentoo-dev ML before they are given a formal
> "stamp of approval" so that the ones deciding what gets in are the
> ones who are actually going to use it.

Except for council decisions involving having devrel fire people, of
course. You may not be aware, but those are discussed in private on a
different IRC network to stop those evil Freenode people who don't
actually have any powers on Freenode from eavesdropping on secret
conversations using the backdoor they placed in the code they didn't
actually write.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh