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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 08/14/2011 04:35 PM, Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2011.08.14 14:38, Markos Chandras wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> Bringing council to the game, ensures that these projects will be 
>> active and managed at a senior level. Right now, there is no
>> recovery plan if these teams do not function properly.
> 
> What's the recovery plan if other projects don't function properly? 
> e.g. Documentation. The install guides still describe setting up 
> baselayout-1, three months after baselayout-2 was stabilised. See 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=1
>  Code Listing 1.2: Examples for /etc/conf.d/net
> 
> Hmm. maybe thats a bug as 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8
> is correct for baselayout-2.
> 
> Anyway, I'm sure you get the idea.
> 
> Will the council fix these things too ? Josh, this is just one
> example I'm familiar with. not a poke at you being the entire docs
> team.
> 
> Why are devrel and QA special?
> 
> To continue with my example, I would suggest that docs are much more
>  important as they are first point of contact for new users and
> without users Gentoo will die.
> 
Yes but like I said, many project keep their documentation in their
project pages. Like openrc does for baselayout-2 migration guide.
I don't disagree with you and yes maybe more team need to be
managed/monitor at a senior level. The thing is that something HAS to
change.

I like your idea about the authority team (though  this introduces
another layer of bureaucracy). It would be nice to have a team
monitoring all the projects and poking council to take action when
needed. But this team looks like similar to QA doesn't it? What if this
team is formed by Council members (2-3)? This team will gather feedback
from the community ( "Hey devs, which teams need urgent attention?" ),
design solutions and bring them to the Council agenda?

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