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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> 1. reconsider metadata changepolicies proposal |
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> Can council please decide to honor |
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> the wish from developers to implement this? |
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The council will be glad to vote on a GLEP when ready. From GLEP 1, |
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GLEPs are the "primary mechanisms for proposing significant new |
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features, for collecting community input on an issue, and for |
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documenting the design decisions". So use them. |
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Also, you might want to check the log and summary of the last meeting |
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to find out why the council may end up voting no to such a GLEP. |
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> 2. website redesign |
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> Can council assure that a team will be assembled that can |
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> effectively tackle this issue? |
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You want the council to aim their collective gun at volunteer |
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developers and force them to assemble in a team and work on something |
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they might not want to work on? |
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In other words, if you want it then work on it and make it happen. |
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This is and has always been the Gentoo way. |
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> 3. manpower and recruitment issues |
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> Another recurring theme is the lack of manpower in certain areas, the |
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> recruitment bottleneck and the quizzes. There are some initiatives but |
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> more decisive leadership is needed. Can council decide to actively |
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> pursue solutions for these structural problems? |
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The only way to solve this is to address these issues where they are. |
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That means joining the recruiters team and helping them with that. |
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Another thing you might want to do is properly mentor recruits. |
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Because one reason recruiting takes so long, and thus why there is a |
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backlog, is (to put is simply) that mentors suck at mentoring. |
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> 4. devrel ineffectiveness |
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In case you haven't noticed there was a recent change of devrel lead. |
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This means it is urgent to wait for the results of the change. Because |
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you never know, it might just be that the change of lead was intended |
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to solve such things at a perceived devrel ineffectiveness. |
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> 5. centralize developer documentation |
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This is an interesting idea which I believe I have seen discussed on |
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irc at some point. Feel free to work on a GLEP to address that. |
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Before we go any further, let me make the following PA announcement: |
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1 - If you want to improve a project or subproject the best (and |
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often only) thing to do is to join it. |
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2 - The council isn't a super-nanny metaproject with enough magical |
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powers to solve each and every of your oh-so-annoying problems. We do |
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have magic wands but you don't want to see them. |
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Denis. |