[gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile?

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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It's been a bit over a year and a half since glep.gentoo.org came
online, and GLEPs became the standard method for proposing significant
changes to Gentoo.  I think it's time to assess what works, and what
doesn't, about this system.  To date 30 GLEPs have been approved by the
GLEP editors that involve something other than the GLEP process itself.
Six of those GLEPs have been marked "Final", meaning they have been
successfully implemented.  Seven more have been "Accepted", meaning
that the idea in the GLEP has been approved, but the implementation has
not yet been completed.  Five are currently in "Draft" status, not yet
having been submitted for approval.  One has been rejected.  Eleven
GLEPs failed to get enough traction to be either approved or rejected,
and are thus "deferred".  Do these statistics mean that the program is
working well, working poorly, or failed utterly?  My personal opinion
is that even with the substantial number of timed-out GLEPs, the
program is still a modest success because these GLEPs provide a record
of notable, generally well-written proposals, which is a vast
improvement on seeing the same half-thought-out ideas appear on the
mailing lists time and time again.  On the other hand, one might well
argue that fairly few substantial accomplishments have come about from
GLEPs, so perhaps GLEPs just add another bureaucratic impediment.

Thoughts / comments?  I promise not to bite anyone's head off this time!

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear	
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