Vincent Untz a écrit : > + a few people are trying to fix the current process by writing the > software needed (for NewAccounts, but I imagine it could be extended > for things like planet). Maybe help is needed to get things ready > (and maybe not), but nobody proposed to help :/
Ah, if you're talking about writing software, you're hitting the soft spot : quite a few of us have knowledge about doing exactly that. Perhaps an explanation about what is needed and what has already been done could help there. > + this should go live soon, as Olav explained (that's why we needed to > enforce the new MAINTAINERS format), so maybe we can wait for it to > go live and see how it goes before throwing everything. Could you explain more about the link with the new MAINTAINERS format? This looks typically like a "I didn't even know about it -- so I couldn't either help or be more comprehensive" case... > + this discussion is helpful in some ways, but I'm not sure we're > getting the most out of it. Eg, I've read here and there that there > are no clear guidelines for inclusion on planet or for hackergotchis. > There were some replies about the current guidelines and suggested > guidelines, and I don't think anybody took them and put them down > somewhere. Maybe this would be a good way to start solving this > specific issue. For the planet, the problem is that as there is a single point of failure, namely that it bears on a single person's shoulders and : - being sick can happen ; - being on the move can happen ; - having no time for that can happen! and this is without mentioning that having no clear guideline about who gets included or not leads to nasty suspicions of nepotism... > + we only have a few really active infrastructure people, and they're > trying to fix issues. They can't fix everything at once. We're a very > big project, and I'm not surprised to see such issues because we need > more help with our infrastructure. It's easy to propose to help, but > what we need is people who can help and stay, because we'll have > issues again in the future. That being said, I'm not in the > infrastructure team and I can't say where help is needed. Agreed. There are other very big projects out there (debian, gentoo and kde to name a few), perhaps there's something to learn from their mistakes or achievements. Snark _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
