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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > >> I'm a maintainer and I'll say right out that I won't fix things |
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> > >> unless they make sense to me; regardless of what some council says. |
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> > > |
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> > > Then I'd imagine devrel would have to step in. |
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> > I highly doubt that would happen unless they want to risk alienating a |
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> > group of active, useful developers over a disagreement over an ebuild |
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> > format. |
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> So you're saying that devrel shouldn't and won't step in if developers |
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> refuse to go along with a council decision? |
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This centers around development and sounds like a QA issue first and |
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foremost. QA has a strong relationship with devrel and would undoubtedly |
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speak with devrel if they felt there was a QA violation that required devrel |
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intervention/review for any particular developer. |
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I believe this should address most questions: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0048.html |
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> > There's a reason why Donnie pushed for having all Council agendas |
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> > publicly discussed on the gentoo-dev ML before they are given a formal |
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> > "stamp of approval" so that the ones deciding what gets in are the |
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> > ones who are actually going to use it. |
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> Except for council decisions involving having devrel fire people, of |
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> course. You may not be aware, but those are discussed in private on a |
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> different IRC network to stop those evil Freenode people who don't |
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> actually have any powers on Freenode from eavesdropping on secret |
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> conversations using the backdoor they placed in the code they didn't |
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> actually write. |
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Please leave the dragging devrel and council through the mud discussions out |
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of this as all you are doing is promoting further derailing of the |
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discussion. |
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Kind regards, |
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Christina Fullam |
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Gentoo Developer Relations Lead | Gentoo Public Relations |