Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items

[Francesco Riosa <vivo75@gmail.com>]

Il 08/04/2015 01:38, Rich Freeman ha scritto:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I've wanted for a long time a system that can help reduce the time I
>> have to sit in front of a computer waiting for things to finish
>> compiling before I can test them. Trawl bugzilla, grab package lists,
>> go build binpkgs. Just let me grab binpkgs and actually test the
>> software...
> I approve, and I'm sure the rest of the Council will too.  When will
> you have it ready?

Actually more than one could object that testing pre-compiled packages
makes no sense for Gentoo.


>
> Nobody likes any of the options on the table right now.  But, they're
> the only options available to us RIGHT NOW.  It would be wonderful if
> at some point in the future a better option existed.  You'll have no
> trouble convincing the Council to adopt it when it is ready, because
> about the only thing I can promise for next week is that whatever
> option we approve will suck - just hopefully less than the
> alternatives.  If we had a great option available, you probably
> wouldn't need to call for a Council vote on it.  It doesn't make for
> great popularity, but we're all smart folks, so the only reason we
> need a Council is for those cases where there isn't an obvious
> solution we can all just line up behind.
>
> In any case, the whole reason we call for list discussion before
> voting is so that people have an opportunity to offer better
> suggestions, and point out issues with the ones that have been
> proposed.  If we didn't care, we'd just shoot from the hip and
> everybody could spend their time discussing how out of touch we are
> instead.  :)
>