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 1OR0fD-0000QH-Sh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:25:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24482E0A07; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AA8E09E1 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so1493784vws.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:24:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DNXX0X6ECKYLwqfKOQN5vctEGeAD67qyVGKUHW7ENLk=; b=ZfDfOwOCPVwECVoQHXU7s14ksU53lbQz9YiQbZKTsf8QPHfEWn3G72azd3HZYn6UDp kOTfhL39asSlLl+nSk0QFQuN4BgUESFPXsequO8SZAHmZbW7c2d7BCa+2lZMmwfEdY1f p9hi8UuSyn8ipllVCIswf7rwBLUM3WAJ4rar8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Wbm/mUfd7KmFYq12PyHH3HIQC7yUIBq0u39GuXJCFYtVId9vSBQ98Bre4UukJwEJsp O02mPXN4MUPIgavphswYS5jOh09NCtsKSe3IbMEm04DvqDk9GLQw75Z7JLhrcRB8F75k 8Uxo7SRky0qAFZqFzLSP4SRcgWrOKb0RCzk1E= Received: by 10.220.123.33 with SMTP id n33mr3127917vcr.64.1277202284241; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:24:44 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: arunissatan@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.203.70 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:24:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1276977363.2635.0@NeddySeagoon> <4C1F9460.2020803@gentoo.org> <4C1FDB72.3020609@gentoo.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:54:24 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8FsVLic0HerQRVo7FBf_f0qc97Y Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 76b91826-00a1-4c4d-a7a4-e1e7ca3861e9 X-Archives-Hash: be13dfc269e27775e528da1cf476352e On 22 June 2010 15:32, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: > >> b) For questions like "- Should Python 3.x be stable?", isn't that for >> team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of >> conflicts? > > Wouldn't the point for specifically pointing out python 3.x as an example= , > that there is in fact quite some conflict on it, as demonstrated by the > threads discussing it right here? =A0If I'm not mistaken, sping has in fa= ct > mentioned that as an example in his "tone" thread, as well. =A0If I read = him > correctly, the implication is that before it got to the level it did, > council should have voted on it, thus providing a final answer, as an > alternative to the simmering level of discontent that's not quite at the > boiling over point, that we seem to have with the situation now. =A0He do= es, > after all, make a strong statement in favor of an "activist" council. I did say questions like this one, not only this one. Also, the context of that quote was from the bit of the manifesto that advocates putting such questions to a global vote, which is what I was enquiring about. Cheers, --=20 Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)