Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-15 Thread Thierry Carrez
Nathan L. Adams wrote: What about giving QA temporary revoke powers just like infra (Curtis Napier's idea), traditionalist? Fixing devrel's resolutions policies and Curtis' idea don't have to be mutually-exclusive. The idea behind -infra temporary revoke power is to react to emergency

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-15 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:42:19AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Nathan L. Adams wrote: What about giving QA temporary revoke powers just like infra (Curtis Napier's idea), traditionalist? Fixing devrel's resolutions policies and Curtis' idea don't have to be mutually-exclusive. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Thierry Carrez
Mike Frysinger wrote: As far as devrel goes, call me a traditionalist but I think while infra should be able to do emergency deactivations (and afaik nobody's ever said they shouldn't) devrel should continue to be responsible for disciplinary issues including repeated QA violations reported by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:42:43 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Before debating if the QA team should have more power to enforce, | let's just have a proper QA project. Apparently not much devs want to | do QA, not sure telling them they will do QA+police will help in | motivating

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:38:04PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:42:43 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Before debating if the QA team should have more power to enforce, | let's just have a proper QA project. Apparently not much devs want to | do QA, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Curtis Napier
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: I'm not an ebuild dev so I may not know enough about this situation to competantly comment on it but it seems to me that QA should have some sort of limited ability to temporarily take away write access to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 07:45 pm, Curtis Napier wrote: Jon Portnoy wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: I'm not an ebuild dev so I may not know enough about this situation to competantly comment on it but it seems to me that QA should have some sort of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-14 Thread Nathan L. Adams
Jon Portnoy wrote: Sounds to me more like people who aren't familiar with the internal structure of Gentoo don't need to be the peanut gallery when it comes to internal structural issues, but that's just me 8) It sounds to me like those 'more familiar with the internal structure Gentoo'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Thierry Carrez wrote: Nathan L. Adams wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: right ... once a GLEP has been hammered out and approved, there isnt really anything left for managers/council to do ... it's then up to whoever to get it done ;) They *could* do some 'creative re-org' a.k.a. remove some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins set it up' Recruitment,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Grant Goodyear
Jon Portnoy wrote: [Tue Sep 13 2005, 11:22:32AM CDT] The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able to do anything because drobbins set it up' Recruitment,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:22:32 -0400 Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: | | The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. | | No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't | like devrel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Cakebread
Lance Albertson wrote: Ah, I see. To the best of my knowledge that just needs to be worked out w/ the GLEP 15 people and infra. I dropped into -infra and they said that there's space for it, but that bug # 98282 lists a couple of contentious points. (Also, the gentooexperimental scripts

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 01:09 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:22:32 -0400 Jon Portnoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: | The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. | | No it hasn't, unless by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 02:04 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: - in the case of developers who do not wish to follow accepted policies/guidelines/etc even after being enlightened, devrel is notified and takes appropriate corrective action - in the case of a need to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this a bad thing ? i'd prefer to have devs settle crap themselves than ever contacting devrel :P It's very relevant, because it supports

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 04:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this a bad thing ? i'd prefer to have devs settle crap themselves than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:02:45PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 04:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in the previous discussions on the devrel list besides, is this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: QA team identifies a misbehaving dev who refuses to change and then hands off the name/relevant data to devrel ... QA team then is pretty much done with the issue and the rest is up to devrel to resolve I disagree that devrel should be involved. I think QA should hand

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 06:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: QA team identifies a misbehaving dev who refuses to change and then hands off the name/relevant data to devrel ... QA team then is pretty much done with the issue and the rest is up to devrel to resolve I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:22 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:33:59AM -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: The actual powers/role of devrel has always been a grey area. No it hasn't, unless by 'gray area' you mean 'a few people who don't like devrel claim it shouldn't be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:31 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: at any rate, you're proposing giving the control to the QA team which has no guidelines or processes outlined, let alone the manpower. devrel has all of these. And devrel is the wrong group to handle it,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:46 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Not really, because my opinion that devrel shouldn't be involved is not automatically turned into reality (much to my regret). I'm trying to supply evidence why this should stay between QA and infra. at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mike Frysinger wrote: as avenj pointed out, current 'mission statement' of devrel says that they handle the issue of actually revoking a dev's access I thought this was written somewhere too, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Do you know where it says this? It certainly says they're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 07:59 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: as avenj pointed out, current 'mission statement' of devrel says that they handle the issue of actually revoking a dev's access I thought this was written somewhere too, but I can't seem to find it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Lance Albertson
Mike Frysinger wrote: It certainly says they're responsible for adding and removing developers, but I don't see anything about them being solely responsible for revoking access. no, nowhere does it say 'devrel is the only team which may revoke access', but it is the only team which says

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:22 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: It certainly says they're responsible for adding and removing developers, but I don't see anything about them being solely responsible for revoking access. no, nowhere does it say 'devrel is the only team

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's responsibilities are It sounds like somebody needs to take a look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:21 pm, Nathan L. Adams wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's responsibilities are It sounds like somebody needs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: GLEP's are developed after the details are ironed out in public developer forums ... their purpose isnt to fast track changes through the Gentoo council to kill long threads not saying that is what you meant, just making

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:21:42PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you read this whole thread you'll find that it is a grey area with different devrel people saying/thinking different things in terms of what devrel's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Corey Shields
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 5:22 pm, Lance Albertson wrote: I would like there to be a clause that infra has the ability to at least temporarily revoke access to have the ability to protect our servers if something came up quickly. I've always made sure any permanent removals go through

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:10 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: As far as devrel goes, call me a traditionalist but I think while infra should be able to do emergency deactivations (and afaik nobody's ever said they shouldn't) devrel should continue to be responsible for disciplinary issues

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Curtis Napier
Lance Albertson wrote: snip ... I tend to agree with Donnie on this partially. Devrel's main focus isn't the QA of the tree, its dealing with developers. QA should have the authority to limit access to the tree if someone isn't following the guidelines properly. They are the ones with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-13 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: I'm not an ebuild dev so I may not know enough about this situation to competantly comment on it but it seems to me that QA should have some sort of limited ability to temporarily take away write access to the tree until devrel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Thierry Carrez wrote: The first Gentoo Council meeting will be held Thursday, September 15th, at 1900 UTC. And the place? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
Thierry Carrez wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 02:04:10PM CDT] The first Gentoo Council meeting will be held Thursday, September 15th, at 1900 UTC. The deadline for agenda item submission is set to tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13th, 1900 UTC. To submit an item, you can reply here or send an email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:04:10 +0200 Thierry Carrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The deadline for agenda item submission is set to tomorrow, Tuesday, | September 13th, 1900 UTC. To submit an item, you can reply here or | send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could we get GLEP 31 (Character Sets for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:04 +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: Added by Grant Goodyear : glep40: Standardizing arch keywording across all archs Added by Brian Harring : glep33: Eclass Restructure/Redesign glep37: Virtuals Deprecation I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Thierry Carrez
Grant Goodyear wrote: Yikes, that's short notice. Of course, almost by definition the first meeting had to have a fairly limited amount of lead time. *Shrug* Any chance of getting a schedule for the next couple of meetings or so? (Actually, I'd be quite happy if the date of the next meeting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Grant Goodyear
Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 03:08:53PM CDT] I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script repository (working prototype has existed for some time) I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 03:08:53PM CDT] I'd like to see the following items added: glep 15: script repository (working prototype has existed for some time) I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 September 2005 06:00 pm, Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 04:29:45PM CDT] I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the implementation. or rather move it from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Lance Albertson
Grant Goodyear wrote: Patrick Lauer wrote: [Mon Sep 12 2005, 04:29:45PM CDT] I'm not quite sure what you're adding. GLEP 15 was approved quite some time ago. All that remains is to finish up the implementation. or rather move it from gentooexperimental.org to official gentoo infrastructure

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC

2005-09-12 Thread Nathan L. Adams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: right ... once a GLEP has been hammered out and approved, there isnt really anything left for managers/council to do ... it's then up to whoever to get it done ;) They *could* do some 'creative re-org' a.k.a. remove some