Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years...
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:39:07
Message-Id: 57F807E6.1080804@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Trying to become a Gentoo Developer again spanning 8 years... by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 07/10/16 13:30, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 10/07/2016 02:22 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
3 >> What if the comrel lead was elected by the council and not by the comrel
4 >> members? Comrel is a special case, due to its power to remove
5 >> developers, and I think it should therefore be accountable to the global
6 >> community, and not just to its own members.
7 > If wanting to be consistent with QA lead election process in GLEP 48
8 > council would need to ratify / confirm the lead selection.
9 >
10 > I'd prefer this over election by council in most cases, as internal
11 > worksings within the project isn't easily monitored by outsiders, which
12 > can be important in a lead election.
13 >
14 > Overall I think something like this is a good idea, but note that if
15 > Council disapprove of Comrel behavior, it already has the possibility to
16 > remove a lead of any project c.f GLEP 39. I believe it is a good idea
17 > for reasons of accountability as the council would, a priori, have a
18 > stake in the behavior of a running lead.
19 >
20 >
21 I think this is actually quite a good idea, and reasonably practical to
22 implement ... any oppositions?
23
24 MJE

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