Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:09 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:22:32 -0400 Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote:
> | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote:
> | > The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area.
> |
> | No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't
> | like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because
> | drobbins set it up'
> |
> | Recruitment, conflict resolution, disciplinary issues. I.e.,
> | 'managing developers.'
>
> * devrel doesn't do "broke the tree" enforcement, that's QA's job
> * devrel doesn't do "broke the tree" enforcement, that's the council's
> job
> * devrel doesn't do "broke the tree" enforcement, that's the
> management's job
> * devrel are the only people who do enforcement, and that they decide
> when they do it
> * devrel are the only people who do enforcement, and that they need to
> be told by QA when they need to do something
> * devrel are the only people who do enforcement, and that they need to
> be told by a manager when they need to do something

ive heard some of these ... personally i see it as:
- the council puts policies/guidelines/etc into effect based on developer 
community
- QA team uses these policies/guidelines/etc to validate Gentoo and makes 
other developers aware of their mistakes in a friendly manner
- in the case of developers who do not wish to follow accepted 
policies/guidelines/etc even after being enlightened, devrel is notified and 
takes appropriate corrective action

the idea of course is that policies/guidelines/etc dont come out of nowhere as 
they should be generally accepted before they are instituted
-mike
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