Re: [gentoo-project] Proposed GLEP 1 changes

[Rich Freeman]

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).

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 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).

Rich