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Ulrich Mueller schrieb: |
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>> Council, QA and Comrel are effectively the governing bodies of |
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>> Gentoo, enacting and/or enforcing project-wide policy on their own |
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>> accord. The others that you mention have only direct power in a very |
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>> limited area. |
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> At least for QA this is quite an oversimplified description of the |
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> team's role. Quoting GLEP 48, first bullet point of the specification: |
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> "The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-team assistance in keeping |
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> the tree in a good state. This is done primarily by finding and |
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> pointing out issues to maintainers and, where necessary, taking direct |
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> action." |
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> The latter is meant in the sense of direct action to the tree (and |
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> even then, overriding maintainers is not the default). The QA team |
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> doesn't have the power to take any direct disciplinary action against |
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> developers. |
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Sorry for the long quote, I was unsure if I could cut out anything. |
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I am not concerned about times when everyone is cooperating happily, and I |
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think that is also not what williamh had in mind when he made the proposal. |
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The concern is about times when disagreement gets so bad that the Council has |
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to be called to resolve this. |
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QA has the power to make new tree policies, and enforce them against |
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maintainers (recent example was banning eblits I think). |
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QA is in some ways exempt from rules that apply to normal developers, or can |
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grant such an exception. The shortcuts from the last-riting process for |
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removing packages come to mind. |
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> Theoretically, in the case of continuing breakage caused by a dev, QA |
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> could ask ComRel to have that dev's commit access suspended. I cannot |
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> remember any case where such a measure was taken (correct me if I am |
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> wrong). |
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> So, it appears that QA has teeth but need not use them. ;) |
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One incident I recall where a dev was suspended (and then retired) was a |
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python maintainer who caused stable to break several times. ComRel didn't |
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exist back then. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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