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Jason Stubbs wrote: [Mon Dec 12 2005, 08:06:54PM CST] |
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> The purpose of GLEPs is to coordinate several teams into providing an |
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> overall enhancement to Gentoo. However, the GLEP itself is written by |
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> a single person rather than a cooperative effort between the teams. |
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You know, there's no reason that GLEPs need to be written by a single |
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person. It's often true, though, that it is a single person's idea, |
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initially at least. |
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> Specification |
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> Rather than coming to the ML with a completed GLEP and then asking for |
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> feedback, a GLEP author should look at the teams involved and then |
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> select a solicit a member from each team to be responsible for that |
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> area of the GLEP. The GLEP author may represent any teams they belong |
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> to. |
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Throwing out the initial GLEP amounts to the same thing, in my opinion, |
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since any interested parties are urged to provide feedback, and ideally |
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the next revision will include that feedback, either to accept it or |
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reject it. |
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> Rationale |
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> Rather than doing lots of hard work and having it thrown away once it |
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> is found to be unacceptable by the teams involved, the teams involved |
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> share the hard work and come up with something acceptable to everybody |
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> right from the outset. |
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Yes, of course, GLEP authors should talk to the folks who are likely to |
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be affected beforehand, but if they fail to do so then the GLEP process |
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is likely to be rather protracted for that GLEP. I have to admit that I |
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have no problem with people doing hard work for little gain, if that's |
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what people want to do. *Shrug* |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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