On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:17:54AM -0700, Joshua Jackson wrote: > This is one of those times where I think we all need to take a step > back and really look at what we are doing. Gleps were designed for a > purpose, and this is not one of them. This is an issue of common > sense. We all know or at least I hope so that most users should not be > given access to modify bugs. ArchTesters should as they've taken the > ebuild quiz and its one of the few things they get as an added benefit > for having committed time and effort to earn the trust of the > Developer community. As well it might be considered common sense that > someone who only works on java as a contributor but helps with patches > and advice commonly should be able to do things with java only > bugs...as it allows them to further help out as the productive member > of the community they are. Not possible for reasons I've described in other replies to the thread. Bugzie privs includes all bugs, not just a subset.
> As such I really feel that we've gone overboard on what should be > considered an enhancement proposal. I would think that for the council > as well as the developers would bring common sense to this as well. > How exactly does a glep such as this enhance Gentoo as a whole? That > should be something we all ask ourselves before we tell someone to > draft a glep or consider writing one. > > Genstef, I'm not poking at you directly, please don't feel assaulted. One thing about this is that genstef won't take a no for an answer. Seeing that we couldn't come to an agreement on this (recruiters/devrel on one side / genstef on the other) and that I still believe this affects all devs I thought it was best for genstef to glep it. That way we could all have our say and it could be publically decided whether it's a good idea or not. You could argue that a normal gentoo-dev discussion could easily serve the same purpose but I fear that genstefs initial mail would have been even more vague than his proprosed glep. Adding a bit of structure to it seemed like a good thing and I'd argue that the small bit of structure have helped keep the discussion on track. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
