On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:00 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Bryan Østergaard wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:49:44PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > >> Stephen Bennett wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:16:38 -0400 > >>> Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and it > >>>> be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next meeting. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> There were three council members who happened to be around at the time, > >>> and those three agreed unanimously. That seems reasonable to me for an > >>> interim decision. > >>> > >>> > >> Is it that serious of an issue that it needed to be done as such and > >> could not wait for a regular council meeting? > >> > >> Granted I understand it's important for you paludis users since paludis > >> doesn't support that. > >> But I'm talking about real Gentoo users that use Portage. > >> > >> I think we are setting a VERY dangerous precedent by allowing a subset > >> of council members to make decisions as a whole if they decide to make a > >> decision outside of a normal session. > >> > >> Who were the 3? > >> > > Already stated in another reply on this thread but the three council > > members were robbat2, kugelfang and myself. > > > > Regards, > > Bryan Østergaard > > > Bryan, > > You and Danny have clearly shown your bias towards paludis take over and > support of Gentoo. It's fairly poor taste to FORCE this through during a > non-regular meeting for something that paludis is lacking. > > It's AMAZING how fast you guys are to clamor and fix what you call a QA > issue and other problems when we've had issues highlighted for years > that the council can't move on. But once it's a possible issue with > paludis you guys are quick to respond.
You might be overreacting a little here. To bring you up to speed vapier actually filed the original bug for this after I first noticed one of these atoms creeping into the tree while doing pre release atom compare testing for portage-utils around early February. Till this moment there was no definitive decision of any sort. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
