Re: [gentoo-project] Representation of Gentoo on third-party platforms

[M. J. Everitt]

On 13/11/16 01:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 8:25 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
>> On 13/11/16 01:22, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>>> On 11/13/2016 02:21 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>>>> On Friday, November 11, 2016 7:22:19 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>>> That really reeks of micromanagement to me.  We don't have Council
>>>>> approve individual appointments in any team currently, and the Comrel
>>>>> lead already has the power to add/remove anybody from the team as
>>>>> needed.
>>>> No other project in Gentoo is controlled like that. Any developer can join any
>>>> team without approval. It is not right that Comrel get's to choose who gets to
>>>> be part of Comrel. Also that Comrel can remove members from that team/project.
>>>>
>>> " The QA team lead must approve developers who would like to join the
>>> project. The applicant must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the
>>> duties he would like to perform. By accepting the applicant the QA team
>>> lead will accept the responsibility to direct them as part of the team
>>> and will be held responsible for any action the team member takes on
>>> behalf of the QA team."
>>>
>>>
>> ^^ This sounds like a perfectly workable equivalent that could be
>> applied to Comrel .. thoughts??
>>
> That seems to be the general thinking right now.  Back when these
> changes were made to QA it was generally discussed that at some point
> it probably wouldn't hurt to apply these to Comrel, and possibly Infra
> as well.
>
The only remaining caveat is how the lead is selected/elected .. but I
think we're making some progress on a change of process to that end, right?

Pulling in K_F's comments .. there have been a few random attempts at a
GLEP for ComRel .. I'm not sure what state any of them are in ...
working group maybe?