Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-02-25

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 21:47:46
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 01:14 Fri 21 Feb     , Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> > Andreas K. Huettel schrieb:
> >
> > > Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to
> > > repeat your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously suggested
> > > one (since the last meeting).
> > >
> > > We will send out the agenda one week before the meeting date, i.e.
> > > 2014-02-18.
> >
> > If that is still possible, I would like to add one more item related to the
> > gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flags to the agenda. Namely, whether Council gives QA the
> > powers to enact such a rule.
> >
> > In my opinion, it is not necessary for QA to have such powers (and
> > therefore better if they don't have it). QA can already act per GLEP 48 if
> > there is an immediate serious problem for users. And when there is not an
> > immediate serious problem, any such rule can be proposed by QA to council
> > for decision, especially if the topic is as controversial as the gtk USE
> > flag issue.
>
> Funny how every time a controversial decision gets made, somebody
> inevitably tries to undermine the authority of the group making the
> decision.

Well, I think one issue here is that QA undermined the authority of
GTK+ maintainer here, and applied another policy behind their backs. So
we have two conflicting policies now, one from people who maintain GTK+
and a lot of packages using it, and the other from a team of people who
just had a meeting and decided otherwise.

> In my understanding, the issue you want to address is whether the QA
> team has authority over tree policy.

Even more general, whether QA is supposed to ignore people and just
tell them what to do instead of trying to reach an agreement over
having a single policy.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny