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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, Ben de Groot wrote:
>
>> On 6 April 2015 at 17:28, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Dnia 2015-04-02, o godz. 10:14:28
>>> I would like to ask the Council to confirm or reject the switch of
>>> libav/ffmpeg default to ffmpeg. I don't want to take a stand there
>>> but I'm concerned that our users will end up suffering a ping-pong
>>> of developers fighting and changing the defaults from time to time.
>>>
>>> [1]:https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/50c181372e098719b2573e7b16c74482
>
>> My reasons for the switch are summarized here:
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/215e894205c6ca4a6e4e76291872ce95
>
>> If anything more is wanted, please let me know, and I'd be happy to
>> expand.
>
> This is nothing more than a change of a flag's default. Users can
> trivially override it with their own setting.
>
> IMHO the council shouldn't get involved in such micromanagement.

Well, ping-pong of any kind in the tree isn't a great thing.  However,
I don't anticipate that here.  It is fine to change a default in the
tree - I think we really only need the Council if we have two sets of
devs/projects/whatevers that are actively pushing for one vs another
and commit wars are a possibility.

If all the maintainers are fine with ffmpeg, just do it.  If ping-pong
becomes an actual issue I'm fine with it going to the Council.

But, in general anybody can ask the Council anything.  We can still
bring up the topic, though I suspect most of us will say "we're fine
with it, but don't feel like you have to ask us."  We'll see.

-- 
Rich