From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from parrot.gentoo.org (lists.gentoo.org [156.56.111.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2BJPTsF017746 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:25:29 GMT Received: (qmail 23218 invoked by uid 89); 11 Mar 2005 19:25:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 22872 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2005 19:25:25 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (134.68.220.30) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Mar 2005 19:25:25 +0000 Received: from adsl-70-241-124-107.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net ([70.241.124.107] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1D9plH-0000H0-12; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:25:27 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:25:26 -0600 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile? Message-ID: <20050311192526.GB30649@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050311143951.GA27199@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <4231BE29.2020408@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4231BE29.2020408@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: eb217d60-0a7c-434b-8c1b-5c34b2c2b72c X-Archives-Hash: 8a94f76e9a047bd8dbc5fd404b231822 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ian Leitch wrote: [Fri Mar 11 2005, 09:50:01AM CST] > The effort required to get GLEPs even posted on glep.g.o is enough to > put some people off. Really? It's usually just a matter of e-mailing me. I read through it, and if I see that the GLEP fails to answer some questions that I predict will arise, I will generally mention it to the GLEP author and suggest that such issues be addressed, even it is just to add a section labeled "open questions". Very occasionally I will mention to an author that I don't think a GLEP is actually needed, and suggest that the author just talk to the appropriate person and implement it. I don't believe that I have ever outright refused a GLEP, or even added more than a day to the time for it to be posted. Most of these issues are moot, however, because in many cases GLEP authors prefer to post an informal GLEP on -dev first, gather comments, and then submit a formal GLEP after an initial revision. > I propose that a dev is free to upload a GLEP in any state of > completeness/correctness as they wish, devs can then vote on said GLEP. > If the GLEP author makes changes, devs then vote again on that revision. > This system also gives power back to the devs (and users if they're > allowed to vote) and away from the GLEP editors. It's worth noting that a GLEP author need not be a dev, so those people, of course, would always require a surrogate to submit/revise GLEPs. As for devs being able to upload/revise GLEPs, I'm not opposed. The reason that devs cannot update their own GLEPs right now is purely technical: the GLEP page is part of the www tree, and that tree has fairly strict permissions. If opening up the GLEP directory isn't too much of a pita for infra, I certainly won't oppose it. I would still prefer that GLEPs be run by one of the editors before being posted, since we may be able to help, but I wouldn't insist on it. I would be very sad, though, if people took advantage of a more liberal policy to post poorly-thought-out junk. -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCMfCmptxxUuD2W3YRAkobAJ4nZkBx4osNtA51wXYJpcSQacehKACeIxPT QRxygH6AYAeLUAOQ53WoQ7Y= =yEUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list