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From: Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: comrel changes
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 19:44:34
Message-Id: 2da390ca-e453-4cb4-8a11-8cf6447b2023@veremit.xyz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: comrel changes by "Michał Górny"
1 On 22/02/20 05:39, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 22:11 +0000, Roy Bamford wrote:
3 >> On 2020.02.21 09:19, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 22:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
5 >>>> Alec Warner schrieb:
6 >>>>
7 >>>>> I'm a little bit concerned that this addresses the symptoms
8 >>> instead of the problem. Have you shared your concerns with comrel
9 >>> regarding their lack of timely communication on reported issues? Do
10 >>> they even share the same goals you enumerated?
11 >>>>> My strawperson argument is that:
12 >>>>> - (0) The council will elect some lead.
13 >>>>> - The lead will never write reports (or write them but stop.)
14 >>>>> - The lead will get removed per policy.
15 >>>>> - Council will elect a new lead.
16 >>>>> - GOTO 0
17 >>>> My suggestion is in that case of missed report deadline, Council
18 >>> asks for
19 >>>> volunteers from the developer community to step up, and appoints two
20 >>> of them
21 >>>> to go through ComRel records and produce the transparency report.
22 >>>>
23 >>>> Regular independent review of ComRel activity is what NeddySeagoon
24 >>> and I
25 >>>> originally suggested and discussed with ComRel a while back. But
26 >>> they seemed
27 >>>> completely against it, so we eventually dropped it.
28 >>>>
29 >>> All things considered, maybe creating a separate 'revision' group
30 >>> would
31 >>> be better, independently of the reports. Either split ComRel in two,
32 >>> or
33 >>> appoint something independent. Let 'core' ComRel do their work, while
34 >>> the 'revision' group merely monitor their activities without getting
35 >>> directly involved in the process.
36 >> This 'revision' group alread exists. Its called the Gentoo council.
37 >> Unless, that is, council have no oversight of comrel?
38 > No, that's not how things work. You don't have an appeal body
39 > proactively look into what all projects are doing.
40 >
41 Why not? An appeal has specific information that the review body won't
42 ordinarily have access to? Or so I would expect?
43
44 We're not expecting council to actively be a part of ComRel, just monitor
45 it? Or does that take away from council simply being a passive body?

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