Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-07-02 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hey Sebastian, On 30 June 2010 06:15, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Arun, [...] And another one for More direct democracy: a) How would you decide what questions go up for public vote and which ones stay with the council? Good question!  I think a few voices from developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-07-02 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Arun, On 07/02/10 16:23, Arun Raghavan wrote: The problem is not noise. The problem is that an issue that needs to be escalated to Devrel could not be resolved by the involved developers or the people who were present at the time. Moreover, there are strong emotions from the devs (and often

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-07-02 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: I think we're mixing up a few things by now: - What cases should be handled in public, which shouldn't - Does DevRel work effectively or not - The special case of banning people All I want to say right here is that: -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-29 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Arun, On 06/22/10 07:13, Arun Raghavan wrote: On reading again, you do have suggestions on how you would deal with most of what you've spoken. The only one that I think could use more details (other than all the references to tone which I think we should let rest for a while) is Opening up

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Petteri Räty
On 06/21/2010 07:33 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt - Building sites - Active Council - More direct democracy - New conflict resolution team (reforming DevRel) - Ownership and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hi, On 21 June 2010 22:03, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello! My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt For all your points where you do not have a concrete proposal of how you intend to tackle the problem, could you please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Petteri, On 06/21/10 20:20, Petteri Räty wrote: My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt - Building sites - Active Council - More direct democracy - New conflict resolution team (reforming DevRel) - Ownership and territories -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Arun, On 06/21/10 21:25, Arun Raghavan wrote: My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt For all your points where you do not have a concrete proposal of how you intend to tackle the problem, could you please elaborate? please take your time to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:36:50PM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Arun, On 06/21/10 21:25, Arun Raghavan wrote: My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt For all your points where you do not have a concrete proposal of how you intend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Alec Warner
That is a very audacious vision you have. I am curious if you have any priorities set for the list you provided. At first reading it appears like you have more work than any one person could complete (nay, even a skilled council would be hard pressed to finish everything there.) My intention is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 06/22/10 03:46, Brian Harring wrote: Your proposed solutions in your manifesto is to just throw out the manifest bits that need completion, in the process ignoring the infrastructural and security reasons for their existance. Same goes for ignoring the commit hooks chunk for rsync

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 03:06, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: Arun, On 06/21/10 21:25, Arun Raghavan wrote: My manifesto up here now: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sping/council-manifesto-2010-sping.txt For all your points where you do not have a concrete proposal of how you intend to tackle

Re: [gentoo-dev] Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 03:06, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: (w.r.t. git migration) I hope to see Robin integrate me with the conversion process. How have you contributed to the effort thus far? I would like to re-phrase this question to how come you are able to help, okay? That is