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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council appointed leaders for QA and DevRel
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:37:01
Message-Id: 4E47B326.4040207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council appointed leaders for QA and DevRel by Fabian Groffen
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4 On 08/14/2011 12:31 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > On 14-08-2011 12:22:54 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
6 >> On 08/14/2011 12:19 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
7 >>> On 14-08-2011 12:06:57 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
8 >>>> My proposal is:
9 >>>>
10 >>>> Devrel: 1 year term. Developers are nominated by others or
11 >>>> they can self-nominated
12 >>>>
13 >>>> QA: 6-month term. Developers are nominated by others or they
14 >>>> can self-nominated
15 >>>
16 >>> Why not make this a 1-year term also?
17 >> Because having a QA team slacking for a year before you take action
18 >> is too much :/. OTOH, maybe a 6-month term for DevRel makes more
19 >> sense.
20 >
21 > Ok, but then I'd prefer to make Council a monitoring entity of these
22 > two. That is, if QA or DevRel team(-lead) is slacking (however you
23 > would define that), Council has the right to appoint a new lead (any
24 > time). That way you give the regular 1 year term to someone who
25 > does his/her job, but allow to intervene directly as needed (and not
26 > after 6 months).
27 >
28 This requires dedicated resources, meaning having people monitor the
29 activity of these teams and report problems/progress. Even if we enforce
30 elections every 6 months, if leaders/teams were active, it is highly
31 likely to retain their positions so no harm can come out of that :).
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33 - --
34 Regards,
35 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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