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On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Because the way Gentoo works, any objection to a proposal, valid or not, |
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> whether or not it's already been addressed, has to be answered before a |
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> proposal gets anywhere. Thus, every time people post nonsense about |
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> GLEP 55, every post has to be answered or the Council goes "there are |
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> unanswered objection, so we'll postpone it". |
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As usual you are extrapolating, but you're at least partly right. |
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If the author had documented these objections and the answers in the |
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glep then it would have made it possible to avoid most of what you |
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call the nonsense. Anything buried on the lists, especially in such |
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threads as those discussing this glep, can't even remotely be |
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considered documented or addressed. The answers need to explain |
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everything, even what seems obvious or stupid, in a way that all devs |
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can understand. There is an attempt at doing this in the glep but it's |
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long on asserting and short on explaining, and does not cover it all |
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by far. As it is today the glep is a good draft but definitely not |
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voting material, which is certainly one of the reasons why voting it |
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is taking so long. |
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Piotr, the author, is currently away and has been mostly inactive for |
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more than a year now. I just talked to him on irc and reminded him |
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that as per glep 1 "the GLEP author is responsible for building |
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consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions". |
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Which he is clearly not doing, at least anymore. Whatever the reasons |
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of his inactivity, the glep should be currently considered without a |
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champion and its ownership should be transferred as stipulated in glep |
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1. |
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Thus, I'm asking council to transfer the ownership of this glep, as |
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well as glep 54, and restrain from voting on them until the dissenting |
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opinions have been properly documented in each of them. Any new |
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champion will be fine with me, but I'm proposing, if you agree, that |
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you become the new champion as glep 1 doesn't require the champion to |
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be a developer. I do not doubt that the practical issues due to you |
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not being a developer will be worked around. |
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Denis. |
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