From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2920F138A6C for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:43:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A88E0E08B1; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04049E086F for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:43:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgsk9 with SMTP id k9so49145663wgs.3 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:43:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HlyXaOeZinVJC8LBAX9LdeE5He4mirO2ESNAYr472m8=; b=wEsRFHAeFBrcxnWeQ1HFdCgD30hpkOAs0Tlyvat9+JNoV8cKGo2TjI1PzGxo/OAq5E cQS7GOApqtmPrE8QqNMNRzNwRWywr4XMW7gBBzWVyOPhLjmn4Y7PkZpJLKwEV8tSCw/0 o+PMGbY1gKpyCxesaNxxGX6WYccvGMSWPQPkXh8JKddLIoLEmy42xqsxZ6h1gvPcV8yL xklP74kI+4PkgK9wTDB1rfbv2Ol0m684gaKzJZpglCh8V9Eqh27vvva7j7LCe7Tzq8Xn GwF3DOIBrhyFKaw10lTMVFWyFNkVXPEpgWbKiQCZkuYak+YdaQPiw4bcOcjQ5pDgx/Tj tZKQ== X-Received: by 10.180.74.112 with SMTP id s16mr8959617wiv.73.1428450229817; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (93-51-227-140.ip269.fastwebnet.it. [93.51.227.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b5sm12219380wiw.8.2015.04.07.16.43.48 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55246B57.4020504@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:42:15 +0200 From: Francesco Riosa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items References: <20150402141428.GA31638@oregano.home.lan> <201504032214.01310.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20150404220205.GA415@linux1> <1428237147.22472.1.camel@gentoo.org> <20150405195044.GA2917@linux1> <20150406002706.4aff7e4dda27a25a5c106b50@gentoo.org> <5521BF9C.5060809@gentoo.org> <1428353540.2041.11.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 773f3c7d-6e52-4f81-8d2a-f5ae2d94d7d3 X-Archives-Hash: 508fcf69669c1df708595f502d118970 Il 08/04/2015 01:38, Rich Freeman ha scritto: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Matt Turner 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. :) >