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On 2008.06.08 10:12, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I |
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> have a few technical questions for you: |
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[snip] |
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Like it or not, the council are our engineering managers, not detailed |
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designers. The councils role is to broker agreement and promulgate |
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standards once they have been agreed by those who have to work with |
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them. |
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Looking back over the last council and its recent meetings, its clear |
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that a lot of detailed design has been attempted at the meetings. |
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That's because all engineering managers love to get some real |
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engineering to do. |
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Before the flames start lets consider the Package Manager Specification |
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(PMS) as an example. For this (very black and white) illustration, |
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forget the council discussions to date and imagine that representatives |
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of all three package managers went to council and said in unison |
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"We have agreed this specification". |
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Are council really going to start picking holes in it and say no? |
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At the meeting ? |
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Council will have spent some time before the meeting reading it and |
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running question and answer sessions with all interested parties, so at |
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the meeting they can put it to a vote to record its formal adoption. |
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If this preparation showed were issues needing more work, it would be |
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removed from the agenda unless there was a need for a public airing of |
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the issues, then there would be a brief statement, not a long debate |
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that tried to fix the issues there and then. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(NeddySeagoon) a member of |
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gentoo-ops |
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forum-mods |
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treecleaners |
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trustees |
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