[gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-11-12

[Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>]

On 30/10/2013 00:22, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> In two weeks from now, the council will again have its regular monthly
> meeting. Now is the time to raise and prepare items that the council should
> put on the agenda to discuss or vote on.
>
> Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to repeat
> your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously suggested one (since
> the last meeting).
>
> The agenda for the next meeting will be sent out on Tuesday 2013-11-05.
>
> Please respond to the gentoo-project list, if possible.
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>

Hi,

I propose that the Council disband the current QA team, and call for 
interested developers to form a new one in its place.

In its current state, the QA project (excluding subprojects) is 
moribund, and all attempts to address the problem with the team directly 
have failed.

The team is predominately inactive - of the eight listed members, only 
half have any bugzilla activity at all within the last six months. Of 
those four members, after a cursory examination of bugzilla, I was only 
able to locate one that has made more than one action clearly as part of 
the QA team within the last six months.

There is no way for new members to join the team. Requests for 
membership posted to the mailing list are ignored[1], and direct mails 
apparently go unanswered.

The mailing list is dead - the only post in the last two years is a ping 
about trying to join the team. Only half of the team are in their IRC 
channel, and most of the few queries raised there are ignored.

The email alias is private, so it's not clear who will be receiving any 
queries via email or bugmail.

In its current state, not only is QA achieving few of its project goals, 
but it's actually harmful in that sought advice and mediation never 
actually comes.

Best regards,
Michael

[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.qa/102