Re: [gentoo-project] Proposed GLEP 1 changes

[Chris Reffett]

On 12/18/2013 7:03 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 3:04 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
> <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
>> Some idea: it's not that obvious to me what's the process to become a
>> GLEP editor, or to change the GLEP editors team if everyone is inactive
>> (which I think either happened recently or was very close to it).
>>
> The GLEP team is just an ordinary project - anybody can
> join/contribute.  In fact, this is a great place for interested
> non-devs to contribute as well, and I passed a long a list of
> volunteers I solicited a few months ago to creffett (who seems to be
> doing a great job).
He did indeed send me such a list. Once all of these GLEP changes are
taken care of, I will take some time to think of how people can help out
and will be emailing those people who volunteered (and if anyone else,
dev or not, is interested in helping, feel free to email glep@ and we
can talk).

>
> Even though QA got some special attention recently this isn't some
> kind of a trend - in general teams should be open for anybody to
> participate in.  QA just needed a bit more care (IMHO) since it has an
> unusually high level of authority/responsibility.  The GLEP team (like
> every other project) doesn't have any special authority - they are
> there to be caretakers, make recommendations, etc.
I concur, the process is the same as any other: email the team and ask
to join. I don't think this needs special consideration.
>
> I think the question came up as to whether these non-substantive
> changes really need Council approval.  My personal feeling is that as
> long as the changes are announced and there are no major objections
> they should be able to stand without further approval.  If somebody
> questions whether a particular change is major vs minor they can
> always stick it on the council agenda.  However, it isn't a big deal
> for the council to rubber-stamp minor changes either - we should be
> reading this stuff anyway and it takes little time (it just creates
> latency - unless we vote by bug as we did with the QA lead
> confirmation which got done in less than a day).
I suggested that as one of the patches, my personal preference is that
any substantive changes (defined as any change to a GLEP that changes
its meaning, so minor clarifications, formatting fixes, etc. excepted
here) should be run by the council, since I can't imagine any time that
a GLEP change would be time-critical and since GLEPs affect the whole
project I would like to avoid any appearance of non-elected people (the
glep@ team) making or deciding Gentoo policy. As with all of my
suggested changes, if someone has a better idea, I would love to hear it.
>
> Rich
>
Chris Reffett