Re: How this all works... [was Re: 2.4 Proposed Modules - 2 weeks left]

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 00:24, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 07:49, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Of course, in the case of Gnome this "considering" 
> > basically consists of various people sending heated mails on mailing 
> > lists, and finally the release team gets to "interpret" this and come up 
> > with what they think is our decision as a group.
> 
> There seems to be some grumbling about this method. I'm not very
> comfortable with it either- it puts too much power in the hands of a
> small group of fairly inbred people who have fairly set ways of looking
> at the GNOME world. Problem being I'm not sure how else to do it.
> Really, it's the problem with all GNOME decisions and actions- it boils
> down to someone taking some type of initiative and doing it, and that's
> frequently not the best way to do things. 
> 
> $UNNAMED_NAUTILUS_HACKER_WHO_HAS_BEEN_KNOWN_TO_BE_CALLED_CPN_PRINTMAN
> has suggested[1] that the key is mainly to enlarge the number of people
> approving the relevant GEP. It's currently basically the release team.
> $HACKER suggests it be release team + team leads (a11y, QA, docs, i18n)
> + current maintainers of core modules + proposed maintainers.
> 
> This would make the process slightly more unweildy (bad) but reduce the
> appearance and the actuality of the release team basically making
> decisions for the rest of GNOME unilaterally (good.)
> 
> Does anyone have other suggestions? Does anyone care?

Yes it should be a larger group. Yes team leads and current core
maintainers are good people to do the final decision.

Having proposed maintainers voting on it is kind of self-referencial
though. A bit like voting yourself into government :-) (Well, not much,
but you get the idea.)

So that's a theoretical objection, but I'm not actually seriously making
it, because the reasonableness of the proposed new maintainers mean it
won't actually be an issue.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

"A freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother." -- unknown