It has been noted that certain projects do not communicate their activities well.
Many projects provide documentation for things(java), provide status updates on things(ppc), have bits in the gwn (x86,userrel,amd64), Release releases (releng), or have active webpages (adopt-a-dev, bugday) There are some projects that keep to themselves; AND these projects concern other projects (are global, to an extent). This AND means I can leave out things like arch teams, or smaller projects that don't update often. This mail is not meant for things like that. So below we have 3 large far-reaching projects. Gentoo Quality Assurance Team Gentoo Infrastructure Team Gentoo Portage Team Gentoo Foundation Gentoo Council All 5 of these projects are active. However all 5 have failed to communicate what they are doing; leading to people asking multiple times about an issue, people getting frustrated, people getting outright pissed off and hostile. Today especially has been a bad day for this. Tsunam has blogged, so I will mail here instead. I request that these teams present status reports bi-weekly (thats one every two weeks). You don't even have to write the reports, I will volunteer to bug you every two weeks about what is going on in your project and you can just drop a few words. I will author the report for you and post it to dev (if you wish for me to do so). Note: I shouldn't have to write this here; but this mail is targetted at no one. All 5 of these teams are working for gentoo, however the miscommunications have cost some friendships and caused bad blood between many a pair of devs ( and in some cases, between teams ). The Goal of this mail is not chastise anyone; but to keep the rest of us informed on your progress. PS: I have CC'd the teams necessary as I realize that not everyone reads -dev, so I apologize if this gets to some people multiple times. -- [email protected] mailing list
