Hi, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com>:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:25 +0200 > Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Another one of the things I'd like to see and help reform with the > > > council. First off it spends way too much time on EAPI/PMS. There > > > is no reason to make the council an extension of the portage team. > > > > As member of the PMS team I agree, we have to reach out to more > > people. No matter how well Ciaran does the job as editor-in-chief > > the process needs to be broadened to involve other groups, too. > > Which groups who would like to be able to contribute currently feel > that they can't, why do they feel that and why haven't they said so? For example people from the other package managers apart from Paludis. What we need is a more straight forward way for new features...yes, some measures are already being worked out, but there is still work to do. > Really, the only big issues we've had with EAPI work are getting > Portage support and working around a Council that wants to both > micro-manage every last detail of every last feature and only put in > an hour of work every two weeks. Discussion of EAPI features took place on the -dev mailing list involving council members, so one hour every two weeks is quite exaggerated. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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