Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for Candidates (was: Questioning/Interviewing council nominees)

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that there's a couple of issues that really bother people
> here:
>
> - The maintenance burden of any additional code; and
> - Overriding a maintainer's decisions on existing code.
>
> My suggestion helps to deal with the former, while I believe Rich has
> made a good point for the latter as part of larger changes that are
> either council-supported or have general consensus. When we voted GLEP
> 39 in ourselves (or joined while it existed), we agreed to respect the
> decisions of the leadership and structure we chose.

I don't think most of the recent controversy has been over existing
code, but rather the addition of new code (though a two-line
insinto/doins is stretching the meaning of "code").  However, if a
controversy broke out over existing code I'd feel the same about it -
as long as the changes were sensible and well-supported by a
project/etc I would not want maintainers to block them.

The original question was, "Do you think package forks or
split-packages FOR SINGLE FILES would improve user experience?"
(emphasis mine)

Rich