Ok, so we had a rather interesting debate (which quickly went out of control) today on the whole Gentoo seed project. One of the recommendations that came through the flames was a liaison to help communicate between the two parties, the people running the seed project and release engineering. The idea I had for being a liaison was as follows:
1) Weekly summary of the project provided about Saturday my time, as that's about the only guaranteed free time I can provide 2) Working with both sides to produce a logical GLEP. People are wondering whether or not we need one, let's make everyone happy and provide one on the spot for people to have. 3) Mirror storage seemed to be an issue. There are plenty of offerings from the adopt-a-dev project for bandwidth and server space that I think could be utilized to suit this and let release engineering utilize the official space for their releases. 4) Providing release engineering with extra help through bug wrangling and usage of some of my hardware for future release testing. This would also involve familiarizing myself with the catalyst system, the release engineering project in general, and a general idea of related projects around it. Now, the reality is I'm pretty much head diving into a brick wall so to speak. I know there are already people strongly opposed (If we couldn't tell be the rather long thread currently in progress), and at this point, I'm somewhat waiting things out, as people are just plain pissed off right now, and trying to establish things isn't going to happen overnight. I'm hoping this will work out for the best. I've seen Gentoo go through a lot, but this particular case has me scared of the future of Gentoo. If this escalates anymore, I fear we'll have more things to worry about than this particular project. -- Chris White Gentoo Developer
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