* [gentoo-project] Statement of the Gentoo council regarding recent events (virtuals, QA masking)
@ 2014-04-29 21:37 Andreas K. Huettel
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From: Andreas K. Huettel @ 2014-04-29 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw
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Dear Gentoo developers,
also as a consequence of recent events regarding new virtuals, masking by QA
and then unmasking, we as the Gentoo council would like to express our opinion
[1] on the following four points, both in a broad context and closely related:
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1) The council encourages teams maintaining central parts of Gentoo to accept
new developers as team members and teach them the required knowledge and
intricacies. We consider this important to ensure long-term continuity and
increase the bus factor in critical areas.
2) While it is any developer's choice not to participate on the gentoo-dev and
gentoo-project mailing lists, they nevertheless serve as main communication
channels. If something has been discussed there, and then action has been
taken, the council regards ignorance of the discussion not as a good
foundation for protests against the actions.
3) The council believes that a wide announcement and if needed discussion of
changes to central parts of Gentoo (as, e.g., system packages, profiles)
should be preferred. In particular, only informing "relevant people" makes no
sense if others will also be affected.
4) The council strongly disapproves of any developers unilaterally reverting
QA team actions. While any future case decisions lie with QA and ComRel
teams, the council welcomes the idea of immediate sanctions in such a case. An
individual developer who disagrees with an action made in the name of QA,
whether the action is proper or not, MUST follow the escalation procedures set
forth in GLEP 48, and is encouraged to work with QA, or ComRel and the
council, if necessary, to settle any concerns. The council will follow up on
any accusations of QA abuse the same way as on any commit that is in conflict
with a QA action.
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While nothing of this statement is so far in itself an official policy
decision, we would nevertheless be grateful if all of you would consider these
points.
Best,
Andreas for the whole council
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20140408-summary.txt
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
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