Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting the general dev opinion ("Meinungsbild") on some feature

[Panagiotis Christopoulos]

On 16:20 Sun 20 Jan     , Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> I would like to suggest and ask your opinion on a simple way of getting the
> developers' collective opinion: cast votes with a shell script on our
> favourite shell server, which is then displayed on a web page (either only as
> stats, or with name lists as now in the public list discussion).
> A typical choice of options would be restricted to "Yes, No, More discussion
> needed", a typical deadine 72h.
>

72h is too little. Generally, on big changes*, I would say at least 2
weeks before actually doing (acting on) anything. Because people may be
devaway for a while or busy with stuff and not reading their mail for some days (for some
reason). 

And there is still the Council for bigger things.

*the thing with USE flags is a big change.

-- 
Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
    ( Gentoo Lisp Project )