Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP system worthwhile?

[Ian Leitch <port001@gentoo.org>]

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Grant Goodyear wrote:
| 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-

The effort required to get GLEPs even posted on glep.g.o is enough to
put some people off.

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.

Regards,
Ian Leitch

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