[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Duncan
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org posted 4a4d97d5.10...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:32:05 +: I have a few ideas about this that I'll have to put in writing and share later, but let me start by proposing that for such a change we require the support

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:43:53PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Which groups who would like to be able to contribute currently feel that they can't, why do they feel that and why haven't they said so? For

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:08:48 -0700 Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Actually pkgcore folk have pushed for stuff. mtime preservation is a simple example of things I've pushed for- at the time implemented by portage/pkgcore, eliminates the orphan potential for .pyc and other generated

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, in general you speak about the council but do you have any concrete plans/goals you want to achieve? Ned Ludd so...@gentoo.org: The dev population is quite a strange beast. I never expected to win. Nor did I, especially because you were quite low on my ballot. Congratulations. The devs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:25 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Another one of the things I'd like to see and help reform with the council. First off it spends way too much time on EAPI/PMS. There is no reason to make the council an extension of the portage team. As member

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:25 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Another one of the things I'd like to see and help reform with the council. First off it spends way too much time on EAPI/PMS. There is no reason to make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0200 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Which groups who would like to be able to contribute currently feel that they can't, why do they feel that and why haven't they said so? For example people from the other package managers apart from Paludis.

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 22:14 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, in general you speak about the council but do you have any concrete plans/goals you want to achieve? I think we are in the information gathering phase right now on how to best proceed. So nothing concrete as of this point.

[gentoo-dev] Re: A Little Council Reform Anyone?

2009-07-02 Thread Duncan
Tobias Scherbaum dertobi...@gentoo.org posted 1246546445.6186.33.ca...@homer.ob.libexec.de, excerpted below, on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:54:05 +0200: Ned Ludd wrote: I'd like to see the dev body have a year-round voice in the council. Either via quick votes year-round on topics or simply by having