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* [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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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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