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Dear Gentoo developers, |
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also as a consequence of recent events regarding new virtuals, masking by QA |
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and then unmasking, we as the Gentoo council would like to express our opinion |
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[1] on the following four points, both in a broad context and closely related: |
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1) The council encourages teams maintaining central parts of Gentoo to accept |
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new developers as team members and teach them the required knowledge and |
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intricacies. We consider this important to ensure long-term continuity and |
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increase the bus factor in critical areas. |
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2) While it is any developer's choice not to participate on the gentoo-dev and |
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gentoo-project mailing lists, they nevertheless serve as main communication |
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channels. If something has been discussed there, and then action has been |
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taken, the council regards ignorance of the discussion not as a good |
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foundation for protests against the actions. |
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3) The council believes that a wide announcement and if needed discussion of |
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changes to central parts of Gentoo (as, e.g., system packages, profiles) |
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should be preferred. In particular, only informing "relevant people" makes no |
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sense if others will also be affected. |
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4) The council strongly disapproves of any developers unilaterally reverting |
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QA team actions. While any future case decisions lie with QA and ComRel |
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teams, the council welcomes the idea of immediate sanctions in such a case. An |
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individual developer who disagrees with an action made in the name of QA, |
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whether the action is proper or not, MUST follow the escalation procedures set |
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forth in GLEP 48, and is encouraged to work with QA, or ComRel and the |
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council, if necessary, to settle any concerns. The council will follow up on |
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any accusations of QA abuse the same way as on any commit that is in conflict |
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with a QA action. |
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While nothing of this statement is so far in itself an official policy |
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decision, we would nevertheless be grateful if all of you would consider these |
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points. |
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Best, |
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Andreas for the whole council |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20140408-summary.txt |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |