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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> From what I see, projects are pretty free to govern themselves. How do |
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> you see it differently? |
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> As Weeve said, he's still trying to get people to stop breaking SPARC |
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> keywords, just like 3 years ago. It's just when trying to do anything |
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> larger than a single project that you run into issues. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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Projects that are by intention gentoo-spanning |
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(infra,qa,portage,council) all have issues. |
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QA: |
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QA doesn't want to step on toes, Halcy0n tried to give QA the power to |
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fix things and it failed. Developers (nor gentoo) can say "we want good |
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qa!" but it seemed that the qa as the QA team define{s,d} it was |
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inappropriate, because there were numerous issues. |
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What kind of QA do we want, is a good question; because I don't think |
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anyone here knows, and it's something I'd like to see answered. |
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PORTAGE: |
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Portage developers are afraid to put anything new in the tree for fear |
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of breaking things (and somewhat rightly so). But as noted, it also |
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means you get new stuff very infrequently. |
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I think the portage team has either done a poor job of bringing their |
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issues to the table; or the community has done a poor job addressing them. |
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INFRA: |
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Infra could be so much more as far as giving out access to do stuff, as |
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I see it now you have to be on rather good terms with them to get |
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anything done. However a correlation here I've noted is that people |
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that seem to do work (and get noticed for it) have good relations with |
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infra and those that don't, well don't ;) |
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I don't really have a solution here, I'm not on infra; I realize that |
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you guys maintain a lot of stuff you have very little idea about, when |
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there is a problem in $area, you have a guy to cover that, but that |
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person isn't always available and it creates frustration. I can see why |
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taking on new projects and ideas are difficult given the manpower issues. |
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COUNCIL: |
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The council technically has the authority to do most things, |
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being our elected representatives. They don't do much; mostly this is |
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our fault as the community itself sets their agenda. This is where I |
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think the current system fails, people are afraid to take issues to the |
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council. Part of this is because issue X is "not appropriate for the |
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council", which I think is hogwash in many cases. If they aren't doing |
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anything at these meetings I would think some global issues are being |
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repressed rather than assuming we have none to address (which many would |
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agree is false). If the meeting agenda is empty, give them other issues |
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to work on. |
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-Random Rant Guy |
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