Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-31 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/2014 09:07 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: >>> hmm? >> >> To be fair, I had a long discussion with this regarding when QA >> has the authority to temporarily ban a developer. > > Cool. > > >> In the case where policy is missing

Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-31 Thread Peter Stuge
Alec Warner wrote: > > hmm? > > To be fair, I had a long discussion with this regarding when QA has the > authority to temporarily ban a developer. Cool. > In the case where policy is missing, QA does not have a clear case > of authority there. It becomes a more murky area. I've tried to > very

Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Alec Warner wrote: >> sounds to me like QA is giving itself carte blanche to make any "fix" >> they want as per "we think a developer's actions are causing problems" >> hmm? > > So in short, while one could read that passage as you did, I don't think > that is thei

Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Chris Reffett wrote: > > - -The QA team policymaking workflow will look like the following: > .. > > If we think a developer's actions are causing problems, we may ask > > them to stop/undo pending discussion by the QA team at the next meeting

Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-30 Thread Peter Stuge
Chris Reffett wrote: > - -The QA team policymaking workflow will look like the following: .. > If we think a developer's actions are causing problems, we may ask > them to stop/undo pending discussion by the QA team at the next meeting. plus > - -Rules for the QA team editing peoples' packages: .

Re: [gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-30 Thread Chris Reffett
On 01/30/2014 03:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:47:01AM -0500, Chris Reffett wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello all, >> The new QA team has completed its first meeting, and so I would like >> to announce policy changes agreed upon during

[gentoo-dev] January 2014 QA Policy Updates

2014-01-29 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, The new QA team has completed its first meeting, and so I would like to announce policy changes agreed upon during the meeting which are relevant to the developer community. In the future, when a meeting results in changed or amended policy,