Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: comrel changes

[Mikle Kolyada]

On 24.02.2020 10:47, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 22:35 -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:39 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 22:11 +0000, Roy Bamford wrote:
>>>> This 'revision' group alread exists. Its called the Gentoo council.
>>>> Unless, that is, council have no oversight of comrel?
>>> No, that's not how things work.  You don't have an appeal body
>>> proactively look into what all projects are doing.
>>>
>> I think by definition this is reactive. Comrel publishes a report[0], and
>> the Council[1] reviews it.
> I thought we've already established that the reports are meaningless.
>
> The way I see it, your system basically means that, repeatedly:
>
> 1. ComRel does their job.
>
> 2. ComRel wastes their time publishing a meaningless report.
>
> 3. Since the report is meaningless, Council has to audit ComRel's work.
>
> Since digging for past data is usually more effort than processing it
> as it flows, Council may as well start proactively auditing everything.
> Except that's not its purpose, and I don't see why we should throw
> random extra tasks on their plate just because.
>
> In my opinion, if we are to go for auditing ComRel, we should select
> a separate group of people for that, people that choose to put their
> effort into auditing rather than incidentally get dragged into it.
> Furthermore, I believe this group should not have any direct deciding
> power.  Instead, they should bring any issues their find to ComRel's
> attention and/or appeal them to the Council.
>

This is meaningless also, because an individual who finds ComRel
decision unacceptable can appeal to Council directly, you do not need
third party layer here.