Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: comrel changes

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 22:24 +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Alec Warner schrieb:
> 
> > I'm a little bit concerned that this addresses the symptoms instead of the  problem. Have you shared your concerns with comrel regarding their lack of  timely communication on reported issues? Do they even share the same goals  you enumerated?
> > 
> > My strawperson argument is that:
> >   - (0) The council will elect some lead.
> >   - The lead will never write reports (or write them but stop.)
> >   - The lead will get removed per policy.
> >   - Council will elect a new lead.
> >   - GOTO 0
> 
> My suggestion is in that case of missed report deadline, Council asks for 
> volunteers from the developer community to step up, and appoints two of them 
> to go through ComRel records and produce the transparency report.
> 
> Regular independent review of ComRel activity is what NeddySeagoon and I 
> originally suggested and discussed with ComRel a while back. But they seemed 
> completely against it, so we eventually dropped it.
> 

All things considered, maybe creating a separate 'revision' group would
be better, independently of the reports.  Either split ComRel in two, or
appoint something independent.  Let 'core' ComRel do their work, while
the 'revision' group merely monitor their activities without getting
directly involved in the process.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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