[gentoo-dev] The Seed Project - Try 2

[Chris White]

Ok, so we had a rather interesting debate (which quickly went out of control) 
today on the whole Gentoo seed project.  One of the recommendations that came 
through the flames was a liaison to help communicate between the two parties, 
the people running the seed project and release engineering.  The idea I had 
for being a liaison was as follows:

1) Weekly summary of the project provided about Saturday my time, as that's 
about the only guaranteed free time I can provide

2) Working with both sides to produce a logical GLEP.  People are wondering 
whether or not we need one, let's make everyone happy and provide one on the 
spot for people to have.

3) Mirror storage seemed to be an issue.  There are plenty of offerings from 
the adopt-a-dev project for bandwidth and server space that I think could be 
utilized to suit this and let release engineering utilize the official space 
for their releases.

4) Providing release engineering with extra help through bug wrangling and 
usage of some of my hardware for future release testing.  This would also 
involve familiarizing myself with the catalyst system, the release 
engineering project in general, and a general idea of related projects around 
it.

Now, the reality is I'm pretty much head diving into a brick wall so to speak.  
I know there are already people strongly opposed (If we couldn't tell be the 
rather long thread currently in progress), and at this point, I'm somewhat 
waiting things out, as people are just plain pissed off right now, and trying 
to establish things isn't going to happen overnight.

I'm hoping this will work out for the best.  I've seen Gentoo go through a 
lot, but this particular case has me scared of the future of Gentoo.  If this 
escalates anymore, I fear we'll have more things to worry about than this 
particular project.
-- 
Chris White
Gentoo Developer