From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdll-00022F-09 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:30:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B8FE08A8; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDA5E0883 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (pool-96-245-231-248.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [96.245.231.248]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547B91B408A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4BBD0786.3090507@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:30:30 -0400 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100306 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting 19 April 2010 References: <19388.19166.779165.480708@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c603d2c8-edf0-4c07-aa1d-100fcbb1a095 X-Archives-Hash: c66da219ccf6426bac0dde01b54c9920 On 04/07/2010 11:00 AM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: >> 5. centralize developer documentation >> ===================================== > > This is an interesting idea which I believe I have seen discussed on > irc at some point. Feel free to work on a GLEP to address that. > To be honest, this doesn't even need a GLEP so much as a website or something. If somebody consolidated all this stuff into a reasonable format, I bet that half the devs would pitch in and make their contributions. The only thing that might warrant a GLEP is a policy decision that all development policies must be documented or linked from that site to be binding, or something like that. I don't think that for the council to make a policy decision that there needs to be a GLEP. Sure, it is the best way to make big changes, or changes that require some level of formality. However, the council can still show leadership in affirming their agreement on issues even if it isn't a formal affair. I'm sure every other town government in the Western World has taken a vote in support of their troops or something like that without going through the official lawmaking process and all that - it is just a gesture. I don't have the time to create such a website although I would agree that it is sorely needed. Hence, I will try to be careful in throwing around criticism - it is much easier to bring problems to the table than solutions... Rich