On Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:06, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Abstract > > The purpose of GLEPs is to coordinate several teams into providing an > overall enhancement to Gentoo. However, the GLEP itself is written by a > single person rather than a cooperative effort between the teams. > > > Motivation > > Recent GLEPs have attempted to force things on other teams. This just > doesn't work. > > > Specification > > Rather than coming to the ML with a completed GLEP and then asking for > feedback, a GLEP author should look at the teams involved and then select a > solicit a member from each team to be responsible for that area of the > GLEP. The GLEP author may represent any teams they belong to.
A GLEP should list whom has been solicited and provide evidence that each has given their explicit approval of the GLEP. A GLEP without explicit approval of all teams involved cannot receive managerial approval. > Rationale > > Rather than doing lots of hard work and having it thrown away once it is > found to be unacceptable by the teams involved, the teams involved share > the hard work and come up with something acceptable to everybody right from > the outset. > > > Backwards Compatibility > > Nothing > > > Reference Implementation > > Just do it. > > > Copyright > > Public Domain -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
