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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 03:07:21PM +0100, Michael Everitt wrote: |
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> On 10/07/19 14:55, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 11:28:50AM +0200, Lars Wendler wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:00:01 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> |
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> > *snip* |
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> > |
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> >>> My second agenda item is: removing posting restrictions from gentoo-dev |
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> >>> mailing list. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I was on the Council that made those changes, and from retrospective I |
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> >>> believe the decision to be a mistake. It was made to workaround |
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> >>> a problem with inefficiency of ComRel, and we should have focused |
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> >>> on fixing ComRel instead. I don't believe it serves its purpose well |
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> >>> and IMO it causes more problems than it solves. |
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> > *snip* |
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> > |
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> >> I fully support this request. |
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> >> This was the utter worst decision being done by council I've ever had |
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> >> the misfortune to be a witness of and I hope our new council will try |
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> >> to never top this kind of bad decisions. |
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> > I was on the council that made this decision as well, and I feel that it |
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> > should never have passed because it comes dangerously close to violating |
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> > our social contract. Some disagree because everything is still read |
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> > only, but I'm still not comfortable with it. |
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> > |
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> > From my POV, there is not really anything to discuss. The post |
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> > restriction should be removed immediately. |
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> > |
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> > William |
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> It remains by dint of procedure that the matter should be brought to a |
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> meeting (or failing that, a bug, as a pseudo-meeting) and that an agreement |
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> is noted that this is the way forward, so that Infra can enact the revision |
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> in configuration, with the appropriate authority. |
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> Whilst it would be an interesting option to do "vote by mailing list" I |
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> think the road ahead could be much more rocky than it already is .. |
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I didn't mean to imply that we should disregard procedures, I was just |
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stating a strong opinion about the decision. It should be reversed as |
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fast as is reasonably possible. |
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William |
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