Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting Thursday October 13th

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:22:07 -0500 Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Mon Oct 10 2005, 04:43:19PM CDT]
| > Isn't the idea that someone writes out a draft GLEP and gets it
| > discussed on -dev (and repeats said process until everyone is happy
| > with the GLEP) *before* pushing things to the council?
| 
| I disagree, but only very slightly.  I never expected everybody to be
| happy before a GLEP is voted upon, but a GLEP should address areas of
| controversy and either incorporate the new ideas or explain why the
| authors do not wish to do so.  In this way the folks voting on the
| GLEP are able to make a more informed decision.  See GLEP 40 for an
| example.

I see the number of objections raised regarding GLEP 40 as a sign that
it needs rewriting, not a sign that it should be pushed to voting...
Perhaps making everyone happy is impossible, but equally there
shouldn't be huge amounts of unhappiness...

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