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Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:56:11 -0400 |
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> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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>> [...] So below we have 3 large far-reaching projects. |
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>> Gentoo Quality Assurance Team |
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>> Gentoo Infrastructure Team |
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>> Gentoo Portage Team |
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>> Gentoo Foundation |
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>> Gentoo Council |
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>> All 5 of these projects are active |
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> it's growing ;) |
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Doh, I wrote the e-mail and then added 2 projects ;p |
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>> [...] |
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>> I request that these teams present status reports bi-weekly (thats one |
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>> every two weeks). |
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> I'm not aware of the issue that sparked this, but if regular reports are |
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> a solution, I suggest that rather than mandating a bi-weekly report, |
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> each of the relevant projects should propose a reporting schedule that |
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> is appropriate to them. |
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> For example, the Council meets once a month, so a bi-weekly status |
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> update seems inappropriate (half the reports are likely to be empty, |
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> the other half a copy of the meeting minutes which we already get). |
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> Perhaps the Foundation would be happier with a regular three- or |
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> six-month update, with the occasional ad-hoc update as need arises. |
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> Whatever, the point is that each project knows best how often it |
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> ought to communicate stuff. |
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The bi-weekly thing was just something I arbitrarily chose, and I agree |
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that it could be different per project. |
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However I myself don't mind empty reports. If there is nothing to |
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report, then there is nothing to report *shrugs*. For projects like |
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council and foundation, that is to be expected more often than not. |
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However if there is a pending issue I'd rather see "we are still waiting |
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on the lawyers" or "the guy who was supposed to setup the server got an |
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internship" or "there was a portage release last week so I've been |
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fixing bugs for two weeks instead of working on thing X". |
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It's a status report, it doesn't have to be lively, the point is to keep |
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developers and users informed of what is going on in these projects. |
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