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On 2011.08.14 16:43, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On 08/14/2011 04:35 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > On 2011.08.14 14:38, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > |
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[snip] |
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> I like your idea about the authority team (though this introduces |
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> another layer of bureaucracy). It would be nice to have a team |
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> monitoring all the projects and poking council to take action when |
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> needed. But this team looks like similar to QA doesn't it? What if |
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> this |
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> team is formed by Council members (2-3)? This team will gather |
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> feedback |
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> from the community ( "Hey devs, which teams need urgent attention?" |
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> ), |
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> design solutions and bring them to the Council agenda? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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I'm not suggesting a new team nor another layer of bureaucracy. |
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In fact nothing changes except the council clearly have the authority |
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to act to fix issues in they way they see fit. I think that is |
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already implied by GLEP39 and being the elected developer body. |
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That's something the council can clarify. |
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Projects are required to hold elections for a lead every year. Projects |
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that don't do that need to be poked to see if they are still alive. |
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That can be a part of the councils monitoring process. |
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Maybe it can even be automated by checking the last modified dates on |
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project pages. Any projects that have not touched their web pages for |
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a year are worthy of further council attention. |
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Generalising your idea further than devrel and QA perhaps some projects |
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need to be monitored more closely than others. |
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However, the data gathering is only useful if it leads to some useful |
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action. I don't see what the council can do if other volunteers are not |
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already doing it, except do it themselves or publicise the problem and |
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ask others to step in. |
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Its all very well the council leading Gentoo to be first into the |
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future but they also have a cleaning up role to ensure that Gentoo is |
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not also last out of the past. |
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Of course, being council, any or all of this can be delegated as |
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council see fit. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(Neddyseagoon) a member of |
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