Hello all, almost a week has gone by, and this GCD seems a bit stuck. Several people have made comments and suggestions (not all going into the same direction), but resulting in few changes to the document. I have taken some time off from the discussion, to work on GCD 006, but also since there is not much point in Gabber and me exchanging the same arguments over and over again.
Personally I would like to hear more voices on topics I feel important: - Keep the 1 year delay for losing commit access. (I understand Gabber's argument that "1 year" is also "several months", so writing "several months" would not invalidate the current manual; I still think that repeating the "1 year" from the manual would be good.) - Drop the distinction between "active committers" and "passive committers". Where is the consensus moving on these topics? I could live with how things are formulated (with the understanding that "several months" does not overwrite "1 year"), but would still prefer to change them. If I understood Chris correctly, he would prefer to split the GCD into one about teams in general, and one about maintainers. Personally I have no preference and could live with both options (but see below...). Concerning the maintainers, as others I do not think that a 1 year term is reasonable, in particular if renewal is to be done through a GCD (why speak about an appendix? what would the corresponding body of the GCD be?). A GCD takes about two months with discussion and deliberation periods, and we do not want to spend the Novembers and Decembers of every year to discuss maintainers. With more traditional voting, it might be feasible. Another possibility: Three maintainers with three year terms and one of them replaced every year; and maybe a limit of two consecutive terms? Many approaches are possible. So maybe the maintainers part indeed needs more thoughts? Maintainers should definitely be mentioned in this document (since they grant commit access), but maybe details of how they are determined should be postponed to another GCD? In any case, I think we need some more active consensus seeking; be it by Gabber, the sponsor Simon or other people chiming in. Andreas
