Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile?

[Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:02 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:39:51 -0600 Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | Thoughts / comments?  I promise not to bite anyone's head off this
> | time!
> 
> I don't think there's anything wrong with the system, except that
> certain managers can in effect put a GLEP on hold indefinitely because
> their favourite editor sucks.
> 
> I'd rather have GLEPs than half-baked kook schemes. We've all seen how
> long they take to un-screw-up... Well, actually, we haven't, since
> they're still not un-screwed, but we've at least seen how much mess they
> make.
> 

Agreed, the GLEP system is good as it stands. If you look at the recent
GLEPs that came through like the GLEPs 30 & 31 which went by (with one
minor exception *cough* nano *cough*) very quickly due to developer
interest. And others, like GLEP 19 for example, are under active
development. The problem is not with the GLEP system it's with the
developers who are either too lazy/busy to write up a proper GLEP for
things that need it, and thus don't want whatever it is to be
implemented too badly, or loose interest in one way or another in one
they have already written and neither of these can be fixed by changing
policy.

--Dan

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