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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-11-12
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:26:16
Message-Id: l50klu$9hu$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-11-12 by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 30/10/2013 00:22, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > In two weeks from now, the council will again have its regular monthly
3 > meeting. Now is the time to raise and prepare items that the council should
4 > put on the agenda to discuss or vote on.
5 >
6 > Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to repeat
7 > your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously suggested one (since
8 > the last meeting).
9 >
10 > The agenda for the next meeting will be sent out on Tuesday 2013-11-05.
11 >
12 > Please respond to the gentoo-project list, if possible.
13 >
14 > Best,
15 > Andreas
16 >
17
18 Hi,
19
20 I propose that the Council disband the current QA team, and call for
21 interested developers to form a new one in its place.
22
23 In its current state, the QA project (excluding subprojects) is
24 moribund, and all attempts to address the problem with the team directly
25 have failed.
26
27 The team is predominately inactive - of the eight listed members, only
28 half have any bugzilla activity at all within the last six months. Of
29 those four members, after a cursory examination of bugzilla, I was only
30 able to locate one that has made more than one action clearly as part of
31 the QA team within the last six months.
32
33 There is no way for new members to join the team. Requests for
34 membership posted to the mailing list are ignored[1], and direct mails
35 apparently go unanswered.
36
37 The mailing list is dead - the only post in the last two years is a ping
38 about trying to join the team. Only half of the team are in their IRC
39 channel, and most of the few queries raised there are ignored.
40
41 The email alias is private, so it's not clear who will be receiving any
42 queries via email or bugmail.
43
44 In its current state, not only is QA achieving few of its project goals,
45 but it's actually harmful in that sought advice and mediation never
46 actually comes.
47
48 Best regards,
49 Michael
50
51 [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.qa/102

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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-11-12 "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>