On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:55:40 +0300
Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/04/14 18:28, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:23:43 +0000
> > hasufell <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> And this is going to get worse if people don't trust them.
> >> Currently it looks more like a loose club, instead of a team with
> >> strong hierarchical structure, which is the only thing that
> >> enables a quick line of action if needed. And that is one of its
> >> purposes, afaiu.
> > There is a strong structure present; for policy enforcement and
> > breakage prevention, we have the ability to 1) act until there is
> 
> And let's be perfectly clear here, nothing was, or is broken.

Or would be; for instance, the PDEPEND. It is usually done in
prevention; see it more as a "what if" and less of a "spank for
breakage", in this case his decision might have been taken too fast.

> Futher, no policy was violated, none, whatsoever.

The "appeal to ..." policy was, but it was a first time event; this
can serve as a reminder how people can respond to such a QA action,
that is to talk to the 1) QA person, 2) QA team and then 3) Council.

> This is an individual, albeit a QA member, disagreeing with a design
> model.

How can we disagree with a design model we didn't know about yet?

> If joining QA team means you get to dictate, alone, how others do
> their work, even when they are not breaking anything while doing so,

That is also a part of quality assurance.

> without the rest of the team, we'd be setting a bad precedence.

Per the GLEP; when there is disagreement, the rest can vote on it;
beyond that, there's also the Council.

> The QA membership is not a large trout you get to bash others with
> when you feel like it.

Of course; but this isn't what is happening, is it?

> Otherwise everyone would be lining up the QA team membership just to
> protect their work from others.

Projects like the Council, ComRel and QA are there to protect Gentoo;
and yes, people are (or should be) lining up to protect Gentoo.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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