Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

On 10/09/2015 01:17 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 10/9/15 6:58 AM, hasufell wrote:
>> On 10/09/2015 12:50 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>> Once that happens, we have important history on infrastructure
>>> outside of our control.
>>
>>
>> Are you suggesting that we move away from IRC now, because not all
>> important discussions start on our mailing lists?
>>
> I just reread this and have another clarification.  Its not whether
> important discussion happens on IRC or on github or wherever, it whether
> we keep that stuff ourselves on our own infrastructure.  So for example,
> council business is done via IRC but we post the logs on our wiki along
> with a summary.  In hardened, we do the same but email the logs out and
> a summary so it gets into our email archives.  If we could do the same
> with github business, we would resolve the "dependency" issue.
> 

That's pretty trivial to do on a case-by-case basis and can be left to
the involved parties.

If you want to automate that on global scale (I don't see why, though),
the gentoo-bot[0] could probably forward all incoming github
notifications to a dedicated ML.


[0] https://github.com/gentoo-bot