Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:08:48 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > Actually pkgcore folk have pushed for stuff. mtime preservation is a > simple example of things I've pushed for- at the time implemented by > portage/pkgcore, eliminates the orphan potential for .pyc and other > generated files (iow, ver

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:43:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0200 > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > 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 exam

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Duncan
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" posted 4a4d97d5.10...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:32:05 +: > I have a few ideas about this that I'll have to put in writing and share > later, but let me start by proposing that for such a change we require > the support of at least 2/3 of

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Duncan
Tobias Scherbaum posted 1246546445.6186.33.ca...@homer.ob.libexec.de, excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:54:05 +0200: > Ned Ludd wrote: >> I'd like to see the dev body have a year-round voice in the council. >> Either via quick votes year-round on topics or simply by having >> discussion in

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:14 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > in general you speak about the council but do you have any concrete > plans/goals you want to achieve? I think we are in the information gathering phase right now on how to best proceed. So nothing concrete as of this point.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0200 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > 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. Zac's said

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:25 +0200 > Christian Faulhammer 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 port

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:25 +0200 Christian Faulhammer 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 P

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, in general you speak about the council but do you have any concrete plans/goals you want to achieve? Ned Ludd : > The dev population is quite a strange beast. I never expected to win. Nor did I, especially because you were quite low on my ballot. Congratulations. > The devs have a voice o

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-01 Thread Duncan
Ned Ludd posted 1246502033.5688.40.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:33:52 -0700: > Why would you vote for somebody who did not even publish a manifesto? I > don't know but I love you for it. My only intention was to help offset > dev-zero being able force the will of outs