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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:12:52PM -0500, Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o> wrote: |
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> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> said: |
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> > This is meant to prevent the case where the QA team ( or a subset; "the |
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> > established QA members" ) decides to make unilateral changes to the tree |
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> > ( or large subset thereof ) without even necessarily talking to the |
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> > affected developers. |
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> > While you may not think that soliciting comments is useful ( and in some |
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> > limited cases I would agree with you ) giving people the opportunity to |
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> > comment also means you just covered your ass, in terms of people going |
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> > "where the hell did that come from?" |
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> We don't plan on going around and making changes without discussing |
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> issues with the maintainers. We put this in so that if the maintainer |
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> is unwilling to work with us for some reason, that we are able to come |
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> up with what we believe to be the best fix. As I said earlier in the |
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> document, we plan to work as much with maintainers as possible, but |
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> sometimes that may prove to be impossible. |
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In this specific instance, impossible is effectively a point of view. |
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For me the question comes down to this.. If QA trump maintainer, then |
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who picks the QA staff? If anyone can become QA staff, then this is |
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questionable in itself. is QA becoming another council with a sole |
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purpose? If so I'd like to see an election again. At the end of the day |
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the pack have to have faith in the team doing the work, and |
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disagreements are obviously contrary to that. |
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