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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:39:26
Message-Id: 20051010223543.GO31219@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th by Grant Goodyear
1 Grant Goodyear wrote: [Mon Oct 10 2005, 05:22:07PM CDT]
2 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Mon Oct 10 2005, 04:43:19PM CDT]
3 > > Isn't the idea that someone writes out a draft GLEP and gets it
4 > > discussed on -dev (and repeats said process until everyone is happy
5 > > with the GLEP) *before* pushing things to the council?
6 >
7 > I disagree, but only very slightly. I never expected everybody to be
8 > happy before a GLEP is voted upon, but a GLEP should address areas of
9 > controversy and either incorporate the new ideas or explain why the
10 > authors do not wish to do so. In this way the folks voting on the GLEP
11 > are able to make a more informed decision. See GLEP 40 for an example.
12
13 I should add that the iterative process, however, _is_ exactly what I
14 envisioned.
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