Re: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Wednesday 30 September 2015, 22:21:27 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> Here's my alternative proposal how to solve this. It takes a slightly more
> radical approach and tries to replace the old mess not with a newer mess but
> with a true simplification. Expanded from [1].
> 

Since the syncing of e-mail aliases creates more complications, how about 
focussing on the easier points first? Let's skip d) and f) for now and stick 
with

> a) Remove the word "herd" from docs and specifications.
> 
> b) Package is "in herd" -> package is "maintained by project"
> 
> c) In metadata.xml, replace <herd>x<herd>  ->  <project>y<project>
> This needs (as Ulrich has already pointed out) a short-name y for each
> project, to be defined on its wiki page.
> E.g., "Gentoo KDE project" has shortname kde.
> 
> e) Since per GLEP 39 only developers can be project members, let's introduce
> "contributors" which are listed on the wiki project page together with the
> members.
> 

We can think about more simplifications or unifications later on.

Cheers, Andreas


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
perl, office, comrel, council

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