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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

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?

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.  :)

-- 
Rich