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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: ssuominen@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:15:37
Message-Id: 20140813111528.3d25b74e@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12 by Samuli Suominen
1 On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:27:04 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The workflow seems to have been...
5 >
6 > 1. Declare dynamic deps a /bug/
7 > 2. Tell people it will be disabled by force, without getting council
8 > involved, and be quite rude about it...
9 > 3. Work on some replacement for the feature, development done mostly
10 > silently,
11 > in a way most people didn't even know about it
12 >
13 > When it should have been...
14 >
15 > 1. Work on some replacement for the feature, announce some design
16 > specifics of it in the ML, and explain it will be the replacement for
17 > the dynamic deps
18 > which will be disabled as redudant. Get people involved with good
19 > spirits.
20 >
21 > (The above message is written as approx. and is not to be taken
22 > literally or as an offense of anykind. Just saying
23 > there was no need to get people up in arms if the plan was to provide
24 > replacing feature all along.)
25
26 These workflows declare that we need a replacement, but that is not
27 necessarily the plan; thus this workflow is a misrepresentation and
28 just one possible scenario. Not sure about "up in arms" but most of the
29 scenario has so far been discussion giving rise to ideas and motions.
30
31 --
32 With kind regards,
33
34 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
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