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On 6/15/19 12:00 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:42:20 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>> Hi all! |
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>> Last year we had a good initiative: it addition to (or even instead |
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>> of) manifests nominees were asked questions by voters. So let's |
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>> continue this year. |
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>> I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to |
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>> keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please |
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>> start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please |
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>> join a thread. |
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>> |
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>> I'll ask my questions in subsequent e-mails. |
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> Gentoo power balance was carefully crafted over the years. However |
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> during last year that balance was disrupted: |
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Over the years there were lots of changes. The recent changes are not |
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/that/ unusual, so I don't see it as a disruption of the balance more |
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than previous changes. |
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> 1. The same person can now be in the Gentoo Council and the Trustees |
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> board. |
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I don't directly see that as a problem. But both Council and Trustees |
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seem to have a lack of members with enough time already, so not having |
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time in two places sounds inconvenient |
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> 2. QA can now bypass Comrel on bans. |
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Every decision involving QA and ComRel upsets someone. |
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The goal of these rules is to contain and isolate bad actors, now we |
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have ... infra, qa, comrel at least, able to act. I'm not sure if |
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delegating capabilities to that many groups make sense, but there are |
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good arguments why any of them should be able to act. |
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> What is your opinion on this? |
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> Should this balance be left as is? |
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> If it should be tuned, then how? |
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> I'm worried about that some people or teams may gain too much power |
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> and misuse it. |
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Those with more free time already have a disproportional effect, should |
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we limit their acceptable amount of contributions? |
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If you're worried about people pushing things the wrong way the only way |
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I see to fix it is to recruit allies (e.g. recruit new devs who have |
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ideas similar to yours, or motivate existing devs to work on a problem) |
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and spend time on bending things more towards your ideals. |
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