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On 08/21/2010 07:46 PM, Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò wrote: |
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> First off, checking the current list of QA members, please answer just |
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> to make sure you are active and still interested of being part of the |
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> team: |
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> |
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> - Mark Loeser |
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> - Diego Elio Pettenò (here); |
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> - Markos Chandras |
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> - Christian Ruppert |
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> - Piotr Jaroszyński |
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> - Tomas Chvatal |
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> - Ned Ludd (not on qa@g.o alias) |
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> - Sven Wegener |
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> - Torsten Veller |
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> - Joshua Jackson (not on qa@g.o alias) |
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> - Mike Frysinger |
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> - Samuli Suominen (not on project page) |
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> - Brian Ferring (not on project page) |
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> |
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> After this I'd like to call for an election of a new lead; I have asked |
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> privately for Mark to resign, or call up new elections himself, so that |
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> I could avoid to state it this way but I see no other choice. |
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> |
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> Given the current (sorry) state of QA, working mostly leadless (Mark |
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> seems to be around when you're complaining he's not around), and with |
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> most members apathetic about all kind of issues, I'm proposing myself as |
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> new lead. |
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> |
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> The role of the lead in this project cannot be simply a "supervising" |
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> one, given that it's the only member of the team that devrel is |
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> interested in hearing from (situation that, by itself, should probably |
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> be changed); it requires actual leading and decision-taking, especially |
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> given the current situation where many policies have never been written |
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> down, and our documentation resources for developers are scattered and |
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> outdated. |
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> |
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> Given that I for one feel like the lead should be an active presence in |
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> the project, together with my offer to step up I promise that if I ever |
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> were to find myself in a situation where I wouldn't be able to find the |
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> time to keep up with my duties, I'd be resigning and asking for new |
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> elections right away. |
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> |
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I'm still "active". I mainly write QA scripts like [1] or [2] and I fix |
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QA issues in gentoo-x86 if I notice some. |
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I have no strong opinion atm because I'm not so long in the QA team. |
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[1] http://qasl.de/~idl0r/gentoo/gentoo_unused_files-beta.pl |
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[2] http://qasl.de/~idl0r/gentoo/invalid-mask.txt |
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Regards, |
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Christian Ruppert |
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Role: Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure |
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member |
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