[gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Status

[Alec Warner]

It has been noted that certain projects do not communicate their
activities well.

Many projects provide documentation for things(java), provide status
updates on things(ppc), have bits in the gwn (x86,userrel,amd64),
Release releases (releng), or have active webpages (adopt-a-dev, bugday)

There are some projects that keep to themselves; AND these projects
concern other projects (are global, to an extent).  This AND means I can
 leave out things like arch teams, or smaller projects that don't update
often.  This mail is not meant for things like that.  So below we have 3
large far-reaching projects.

Gentoo Quality Assurance Team
Gentoo Infrastructure Team
Gentoo Portage Team
Gentoo Foundation
Gentoo Council

All 5 of these projects are active.  However all 5 have failed to
communicate what they are doing; leading to people asking multiple times
about an issue, people getting frustrated, people getting outright
pissed off and hostile.  Today especially has been a bad day for this.

Tsunam has blogged, so I will mail here instead.

I request that these teams present status reports bi-weekly (thats one
every two weeks).  You don't even have to write the reports, I will
volunteer to bug you every two weeks about what is going on in your
project and you can just drop a few words.  I will author the report for
you and post it to dev (if you wish for me to do so).

Note: I shouldn't have to write this here; but this mail is targetted at
no one.  All 5 of these teams are working for gentoo, however the
miscommunications have cost some friendships and caused bad blood
between many a pair of devs ( and in some cases, between teams ).

The Goal of this mail is not chastise anyone; but to keep the rest of us
informed on your progress.

PS: I have CC'd the teams necessary as I realize that not everyone reads
-dev, so I apologize if this gets to some people multiple times.
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