Re: [gentoo-project] Council appointed leaders for QA and DevRel

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 08/14/2011 12:31 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 14-08-2011 12:22:54 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> On 08/14/2011 12:19 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>>> On 14-08-2011 12:06:57 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>>>> My proposal is:
>>>> 
>>>> Devrel: 1 year term. Developers are nominated by others or
>>>> they can self-nominated
>>>> 
>>>> QA: 6-month term. Developers are nominated by others or they
>>>> can self-nominated
>>> 
>>> Why not make this a 1-year term also?
>> Because having a QA team slacking for a year before you take action
>> is too much :/. OTOH, maybe a 6-month term for DevRel makes more
>> sense.
> 
> Ok, but then I'd prefer to make Council a monitoring entity of these 
> two.  That is, if QA or DevRel team(-lead) is slacking (however you 
> would define that), Council has the right to appoint a new lead (any 
> time).  That way you give the regular 1 year term to someone who
> does his/her job, but allow to intervene directly as needed (and not
> after 6 months).
> 
This requires dedicated resources, meaning having people monitor the
activity of these teams and report problems/progress. Even if we enforce
elections every 6 months, if leaders/teams were active, it is highly
likely to retain their positions so no harm can come out of that :).

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Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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