Re: [gentoo-project] March 2018 Gentoo GNOME project lead Election Results

[Matt Turner]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In order to ensure the Gentoo GNOME project is in a good enough
> standing in terms of GLEP:39 requirement of lead "selection must occur
> at least once every 12 months", a lead election was conducted on the
> project e-mail alias. This started on 14th March 2018.
>
> All project members were nominated with a one week acceptance via GPG
> signed mail period, followed by a one week period of voting via GPG
> signed mail to the project alias. In case of equal votes for the
> winners, they would become co-leads and otherwise the one with most
> votes would be the lead. A provision was made, in case there is only
> one nominee accepting, to conclude the election immediately after
> nomination acceptance period, making the only accepting member the
> lead.
>
>
> The nomination acceptance period ended on 21st March 2017 with only one
> acceptance. Thus the only accepted nomination immediately became team
> lead.
>
> As a result:
> leio remains the GNOME team lead.

Congratulations :)

I admit that I was interested to hear how many voted vs not, if only
to get some kind of indication of life from some of the GNOME team
members. Really not sure why the team has become so inactive.

Perhaps now would be a good time to ask for assistance getting GNOME
3.26 (and now 3.28...) into the tree? At some point, well past where
we are now, being behind only causes it to be harder to catch up
because you can't get upstream support. I know I've had at least one
GNOME bug closed as "fixed in 3.26. update your software." :(

Attempting to stabilize 3.26 at this point, when it's not even in tree
six months later, and 3.28 is already out, seems to be a futile
exercise. Is it possible to jump straight to 3.28 and attempt to catch
up?