Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] adopt "sighted pages" system of german wikipedia for our wiki (was Call for agenda items -- Council meeting)
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:02:15
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=u5tn=PKL4p7Mec-7S_6htJkE_by4_=cLh-_HhC5OdAw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] adopt "sighted pages" system of german wikipedia for our wiki (was Call for agenda items -- Council meeting) by Markos Chandras
1 On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
2 > I don't think this has anything to do with the council. The council cannot
3 > interfere with individual projects.
4
5 Arguably the ONLY thing the council does is interfere with individual
6 projects - that is its sole reason for existence. The DevRel project
7 already settles disputes, the PMS project already designs EAPIs, and
8 so on.
9
10 However, projects are self-governing and this creates the potential
11 issue of clashes with the needs of the distro as a whole, so we have a
12 Council as an appeal of last resort. A project's decision does not
13 necessarily speak for the whole distro - the Council does.
14
15 If the Council were to completely refrain from interfering with
16 projects, it could accomplish nothing.
17
18 > I believe your request should be
19 > addressed to the wiki@ people directly
20
21 This is of course the correct initial step. Work within the projects
22 until an issue actually arises. However, I could easily see the
23 Council getting involved here, as this would impact both the GLDP and
24 the Wiki projects.
25
26 That said, I think this is a good idea - why have our documentation
27 split in two?
28
29 Rich

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