Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-05-13

[Raymond Jennings]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
> On 02/05/2018 23:11, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> My goal is to highlight any possible lack of needed resources in this area.
>>
>> I, as a user, have noticed very slow response times on dealing with
>> games bugs, and I was curious if added attention would highlight any
>> deficiencies.
>>
>> Also, I was curious if I was the only user having trouble in this area.
>>
>> I deduced that the audit I mentioned would shed light on the situation.
>
> Just got a thought: is this type of thing for a Council meeting agenda,
> or just something we (you?) could do on the mailing list?

I honestly don't know.

I guess it could also be said that that itself was one of the
questions I could raise on the issue.

> Maybe games herd should get added to
> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs>.

That actually sounds like a good idea.

> Would you be interested in contributing some fixes, possibly via the
> proxy maintainership?

Yes, I am.

My status with proxy maintainers is a bit to be desired though (not
sure if I should go into anything beyond that)

> I'm not sure we need to involve the Council unless there's say pushback
> from the games team or any such issue (I believe there was one not that
> long ago, although I don't know how much did the situation change for
> users and in what direction). Of course decision is not mine, just
> wanted to share an opinion.

I am aware that a bug was filed against the games group itself in
relation to possible defiance of QA rules at one point.  I forget how
long ago, but I believe it was related to the deprecation of the games
eclass.

In general:

Mostly I was curious if there was in fact a problem, and I figured an
audit would shed light on that hypothetical.

> Paweł
>