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Ian Leitch wrote: [Fri Mar 11 2005, 09:50:01AM CST] |
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> The effort required to get GLEPs even posted on glep.g.o is enough to |
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> put some people off. |
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Really? It's usually just a matter of e-mailing me. I read through |
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it, and if I see that the GLEP fails to answer some questions that I |
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predict will arise, I will generally mention it to the GLEP author and |
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suggest that such issues be addressed, even it is just to add a |
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section labeled "open questions". Very occasionally I will mention to |
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an author that I don't think a GLEP is actually needed, and suggest |
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that the author just talk to the appropriate person and implement it. |
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I don't believe that I have ever outright refused a GLEP, or even added |
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more than a day to the time for it to be posted. |
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Most of these issues are moot, however, because in many cases GLEP |
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authors prefer to post an informal GLEP on -dev first, gather comments, |
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and then submit a formal GLEP after an initial revision. |
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> I propose that a dev is free to upload a GLEP in any state of |
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> completeness/correctness as they wish, devs can then vote on said GLEP. |
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> If the GLEP author makes changes, devs then vote again on that revision. |
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> This system also gives power back to the devs (and users if they're |
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> allowed to vote) and away from the GLEP editors. |
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It's worth noting that a GLEP author need not be a dev, so those |
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people, of course, would always require a surrogate to submit/revise |
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GLEPs. As for devs being able to upload/revise GLEPs, I'm not opposed. |
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The reason that devs cannot update their own GLEPs right now is purely |
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technical: the GLEP page is part of the www tree, and that tree has |
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fairly strict permissions. If opening up the GLEP directory isn't too |
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much of a pita for infra, I certainly won't oppose it. I would still |
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prefer that GLEPs be run by one of the editors before being posted, |
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since we may be able to help, but I wouldn't insist on it. I would be |
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very sad, though, if people took advantage of a more liberal policy to |
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post poorly-thought-out junk. |
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-g2boojum- |
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-- |
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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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