> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Kulp [mailto:dk...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 10:29 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Poll (was Re: IRC Meeting Times) > > > On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > > >> The main "Red Flag" to me was the line: > >> > >> AGREED: continue using waf to build rpm package (jlkinsel, 17:24:57) > >> > >> As soon as I saw "AGREED", a little red flag popped up in my head > wondering > >> if a decision had been made on IRC that should have been done on the list. > I > >> believe this had been discussed to death on the list already (need to > >> double check, very busy list) and a quick link to show that would > >> definitely been helpful. > > > > That's a really good point. Here the agreement was that waf is the > temporary solution to continue to use to get 4.0 release out. It's not an > agreement on long term direction of CloudStack. Does it still count as a > decision? I mean there's tons of these types of "decisions" made during the > IRC? For example, who's going to help with what work. Todo lists being > generated. Etc. Do these all count as decisions? > > > As Noah stated, it's kind of a gray area and is something you'll likely need > to > adjust as you move forward, learn what works and doesn't, etc... A lot of it > can depend exactly on how it's presented in the minutes/log. If it was > presented more like: > > No one present has time to look at other options for RPM packaging right > now so planning on sticking with waf for now. > > then it wouldn't have raised any red flags to me at all. That shows that its > more of a "remain status quo" for now, but also allows others that were not > on the irc chat to say "hey, I have some time, can I help out with that" or > something. Keeps the door open. The "AGREED" wording just seems to > imply "we're doing this, discussion closed" type thing which really isn't the > case. >
OK. That makes it very clear. Thanks, Daniel. I thought it might have just been the wording on that statement and it's good to get a confirmation. --Alex
