Re: Shutting down the Off the Wall (was: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items ...)

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2020 23:07:01 CET Jimi Huotari wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 08:16:16 -0800
> Speaking of my thoughts and about how I felt about the situation from
> around the time when this topic came up again this year: we have the
> bug(s) and complaints from the other year, yeah, but I for one seriously
> did not realise we were in such a hurry.
>
> ...
>
> To go back to the topic of urgency for a bit, bug 677824 [1] last said:
>
> "Closing for now, as discussed in today's council meeting. Please reopen
> when there is input from the mailing list."

I'm sure I'm not the only dev who rather regretfully spends time on that 
topic, so the discussion died down, but with bug 677824 in deferred/unresolved 
state it was really only a matter of time for it to re-erupt on a random event 
as nothing has changed since in OTW, both wrt lack of moderation and public 
visibility. None of which should have depended on council action to change, 
but simply on awareness in the forum moderation team.

On Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2020 23:07:01 CET Jimi Huotari wrote:
> I had actually hoped to finally finish things up with regards to
> officially becoming an ebuild maintainer as well, but I'm not so sure
> about that any longer...

That would be a shame.

On Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2020 23:07:01 CET Jimi Huotari wrote:
> As a kind of a sidey-note, to this day, I don't remember seeing anyone
> reporting any of the offending posts as they normally would be, via the
> forums [2], which is a big part of how moderation over there happens.  :]

I've had enough interactions about OTW in 'Gentoo Forums Feedback' to realise 
that is pointless.

Regards