From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EADF139085 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 855A5E0E53; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55DCFE0E52 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from katipo2.lan (unknown [IPv6:2406:e001:1:d01:de0e:a1ff:fea1:6ec4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: kentnl) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1D2A3414C1 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:19:14 +1300 From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: GLEP - Require Projects to report to Council Monthly Message-ID: <20170120101914.43923e6b@katipo2.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <1975914.inQFSlDfHT@rioja> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/wnrTAx3si5lRuf_5de=UUXP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7e151ec1-8e2f-4d24-b1ce-82d8d764b12b X-Archives-Hash: 859688595dac5d1a6996cb2f05275d38 --Sig_/wnrTAx3si5lRuf_5de=UUXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:47:46 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > If it is just one person, it is not really a project or team. Just=20 > someone scratching their itches. A project reducing itself to one person is not grounds for dissolution=20 of a project. Even if that project is inactive, it is not grounds for dissolution of the = project. Because sometimes there is no work to be done. And sometimes the reduction to 1 is not long term. And projects serve more than a grouping of people. Projects serve as a proxy for ownership of packages, allowing smooth transfer of maintainership of a collection of related packages between maintainers. Otherwise, some really large projects with lots of packages would have dissolved to a single maintainer, somebody would have had to go through and change hundreds of metadata.xml files, only to later acquire a new member, requiring a reformulation of the project, and a repeat of=20 going through and flipping the metadata.xml for no benefit. Projects serve as a structure to make development easier and possible. Not a structure to rap us over the knuckles. ( Though sometimes both happen= s, its important to know which one happens in service of the other ) --Sig_/wnrTAx3si5lRuf_5de=UUXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEPZazbI/qrFT1o9rn6FQySxNmqCAFAliBLV8ACgkQ6FQySxNm qCAEGA//XhLK/eUkyKnnUtb/EaIVJIK2zlOpUSPoSW9qwU2WqzzfX43TVVB3GgN+ LNWwRleZwo5KpWZDVTjqTkm4lMacCQXjaJWmzGyt0MyPxNsA5dn72zGdA2GxoSuT IqAK9qnl9JBMinhiI1FeiQcg6KWRMOXvtNTDtBk3BAY7PIrC3swQG0zes2liZA4f HEjCmHujd+Q/6u1jd3/UnqUWs00Dj6tF5JigvYoIUsfXhI6nc4m/nPiudB67ASF/ GFAqYMBiWREXJVqw9yVN2Bw+gnlsQ5vrtaaDxN5OjvamRSQ3vR1sfreXow132UIO 1S4g8zbDfH5XFeXTuTqS7rC40+vbD3Otmv+k6+Gge3IoVqyl+cQiaA7fECybukEi giM77M9Iol90YL7jma8F8p9IsPWvZsHS8jiDek6IfP8WUV7U/Z7zEr/J9lHUxPTE nB1yWg1IWUUNqkL1gN/bd+O+JUhh/MC2lOD5Qo5fO30nFIIYBfOjl0rF/O117I94 nBqJccoe1lpw9w2WwiJiQPQsQyvwuV6JAzb22A4amIkWrUkIgpljibCdHfz5E9C2 3zPUvrQ8wEp+5K7ujPaM8yTCUV+iRW5UF5zw8rDK4C3lBTnapZCdkQb8+Eg6D8QQ 9W77c/ZQUibTvta4iGChnQJiDGCfwch9unbRscY16t/vCNiMGyg= =TLBm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wnrTAx3si5lRuf_5de=UUXP--